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The Book of Hebrews, Chapter 9, Verse 14

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How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
King James Version
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions [that were] under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
American Standard Version
And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a death having taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they that have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
New English Translation
For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
World English Bible
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
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For where a testament [is], there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
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For a testament [is] of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
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Whereupon neither the first [testament] was dedicated without blood.
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For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
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Saying, This [is] the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
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Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
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And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
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[It was] therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
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For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, [which are] the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
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Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;