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The Book of Hebrews, Chapter 9, Verse 23

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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.
King James Version
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:
American Standard Version
For Christ entered not into a holy place made with hands, like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:
New English Translation
where he is now waiting until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet.
World English Bible
It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
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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;
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For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
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And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
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So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
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For the law having a shadow of good things to come, [and] not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
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For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
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But in those [sacrifices there is] a remembrance again [made] of sins every year.
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For [it is] not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
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Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
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In burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hast had no pleasure.