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.
22. We have been sprinkled ⌊with his blood⌋ to free us from a guilty conscience, and our bodies have been washed with clean water. So we must continue to come ⌊to him⌋ with a sincere heart and strong faith.
23. We must continue to hold firmly to our declaration of faith. The one who made the promise is faithful.
24. We must also consider how to encourage each other to show love and to do good things.
25. We should not stop gathering together with other believers, as some of you are doing. Instead, we must continue to encourage each other even more as we see the day of the Lord coming.
26. If we go on sinning after we have learned the truth, no sacrifice can take away our sins.
27. All that is left is a terrifying wait for judgment and a raging fire that will consume God’s enemies.
28. If two or three witnesses accused someone of rejecting Moses’ Teachings, that person was shown no mercy as he was executed.
29. What do you think a person who shows no respect for the Son of God deserves? That person looks at the blood of the promise (the blood that made him holy) as no different from other people’s blood, and he insults the Spirit that God gave us out of his kindness. He deserves a much worse punishment.