Hebrews 9:6-9; Hebrews 9:13; Hebrews 9:25

Hebrews 9:6-9

6 After this was set up, the priests went about their duties in the large tent.

7 Only the high priest entered the smaller, inside tent, and then only once a year, offering a blood sacrifice for his own sins and the people's accumulated sins.

8 This was the Holy Spirit's way of showing with a visible parable that as long as the large tent stands, people can't just walk in on God.

9 Under this system, the gifts and sacrifices can't really get to the heart of the matter, can't assuage the conscience of the people,

Hebrews 9:13

13 If that animal blood and the other rituals of purification were effective in cleaning up certain matters of our religion and behavior,

Hebrews 9:25

25 He doesn't do this every year as the high priests did under the old plan with blood that was not their own;