11. Every day each priest performed his religious duty. He offered the same type of sacrifice again and again. Yet, these sacrifices could never take away sins.
12. However, this chief priest made one sacrifice for sins, and this sacrifice lasts forever. Then he received the highest position in heaven.
13. Since that time, he has been waiting for his enemies to be made his footstool.
14. With one sacrifice he accomplished the work of setting them apart for God forever.
15. The Holy Spirit tells us the same thing:
16. “This is the promise that I will make to them after those days, says the Lord: ‘I will put my teachings in their hearts and write them in their minds.’ ”
17. Then he adds, “I will no longer hold their sins and their disobedience against them.”
18. When sins are forgiven, there is no longer any need to sacrifice for sins.
19. Brothers and sisters, because of the blood of Jesus we can now confidently go into the holy place.
20. Jesus has opened a new and living way for us to go through the curtain. (The curtain is his own body.)
21. We have a superior priest in charge of God’s house.