14. How much more is done by the blood of Christ. He offered himself through the eternal Spirit as a perfect sacrifice to God. His blood will make our hearts clean from useless acts. We are made pure so that we may serve the living God.
15. So Christ brings a new agreement from God to his people. Those who are called by God can now receive the blessings that God has promised. These blessings will last forever. They can have those things because Christ died so that the people who lived under the first agreement could be set free from sin.
16. When there is a will, it must be proven that the man who wrote that will is dead.
17. A will means nothing while the man is alive. It can be used only after he dies.
18. This is why even the first agreement could not begin without blood to show death.
19. First, Moses told all the people every command in the law. Next he took the blood of calves and mixed it with water. Then he used red wool and a branch of the hyssop plant to sprinkle the blood and water on the book of the law and on all the people.
20. He said, “This is the blood which begins the agreement that God commanded you to obey.”
21. In the same way, Moses sprinkled the blood on the Holy Tent and over all the things used in worship.
22. The law says that almost everything must be made clean by blood. And sins cannot be forgiven without blood to show death.