Hebrews 9

The author describes the earthly tabernacle with its holy places and rituals, into whose inner room the high priest went once a year with blood, a “symbol for the present age,” showing that “the way into the holy places” was not yet opened. But Christ, “as a high priest of the good things that have come,” entered “the greater and more perfect tent,” not by the blood of goats and calves “but by means of his own blood,” securing “an eternal redemption.” How much more will His blood “purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God!” He is “the mediator of a new covenant,” His death redeeming us from sin. And “just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time... to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.”