⁹ Some people teach all kinds of strange new things.^[a] Do not let them lead you away from God's true message. It is good that God is very kind to us. That is what makes us strong inside ourselves. Rules about what foods we should eat do not make us strong like that. Those rules have never helped the people who tried to obey them.

¹⁰ Jesus Christ is the sacrifice that saves us. Jewish priests do not have the authority to receive anything from his sacrifice. ¹¹ In the old agreement, the leader of the priests brings the blood from the animal sacrifices into the Most Holy Place. He does that so that God will forgive the sins of the people. But they take the bodies of those animals away from there. They burn them outside the town.^[b]