¹ For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

⁵ who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, "See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain."

¹⁷ which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.

¹¹ But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,

¹⁸ For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

¹⁹ (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

²³ It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

⁸ The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn't yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing;

⁹ which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshipper perfect;

²⁵ nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,

³ But in those sacrifices there is yearly reminder of sins.

⁴ For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

¹¹ Every priest indeed stands day by day ministering and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,

¹² but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

¹³ from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.

¹⁴ For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

¹⁵ The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,

¹⁶ "This is the covenant that I will make with them: 'After those days,' says the Lord, 'I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;'" then he says,

¹⁷ "I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more."

¹⁸ Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.