Hebrews 9:6-14

New Catholic Bible

⁶ With these arrangements for worship having been made, the priests continually enter the first tabernacle to carry out their ritual duties. ⁷ However, the high priest alone enters the second tabernacle, and he can do so only once a year, and not without the blood that he offers for himself and for the errors that the people had committed.

⁸ By this the Holy Spirit reveals to us that as long as the first tabernacle remains standing, the way into the sanctuary has not been disclosed. ⁹ This is a symbol of the present time, during which the gifts and sacrifices that are offered are unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper. ¹⁰ They deal only with food and drink and various ceremonial washings, regulations in regard to the body that are imposed until the coming of the new order.

¹¹ Christ Has Come.^[a] But now Christ has arrived as the high priest of the good things that have come. He has passed through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made by human hands, that is, not a part of this creation, ¹² and he has entered once for all into the sanctuary not with the blood of goats and calves but with his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption.

¹³ The blood of goats and bulls and the sprinkling of ashes of a heifer sanctify those who have been defiled and restore bodily purity. ¹⁴ How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from acts that lead to death so that we may worship the living God.