¹⁷ These are a shadow^(A) of what was to come;^(B) the substance is^[a] the Messiah.^(C)

²³ Therefore it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves to be purified with better sacrifices than these.^(A)

The Perfect Sacrifice

10 Since the law has only a shadow of the good things^(A) to come, and not the actual form of those realities, it can never perfect the worshipers by the same sacrifices they continually offer year after year.