Hebrews 10:11-22

11Every day, the priests do their work to serve God. They offer the same sacrifices to God again and again. But those sacrifices can never take away people's sins.

12But Christ, our special priest, offered one sacrifice to take away our sins. He did that once, for all time. After that, he sat down at God's right side to rule with him.

13Since then, he waits for God to win against his enemies completely. They will become like a place for him to put his feet.

14So, as a result of his one sacrifice, Christ has made God's people completely clean for all time.

15God's Holy Spirit also shows us that these things are true. He says this first:

16‘The Lord God says: After the time of the old agreement, I will make a new agreement with my people. It will be like this: I will put my laws deep inside them. I will put them into their thoughts.’

17Then he says this: ‘I will not continue to think about their sins when they do not obey my laws.’

18So that is the way that God forgives our sins. When God has done that, we do not need to have any other sacrifice to take away our sins.

19So then, Christian friends, we see that Jesus died as a sacrifice on our behalf. Because of that, we may go into God's Most Holy Place. We are not afraid to do that.

20Jesus has opened a new way for us to come near to God. That way gives us life with God. It leads us through the curtain into God's Most Holy Place. Jesus opened that curtain for us when he offered his own body to God as a sacrifice.

21We have a great priest who rules the people of God's house.

22So we should come near to God and we should not be afraid. But we must be honest and we must continue to trust him. He has made us clean from the dirt of our sins. Our thoughts no longer give us trouble about our sins. We have become clean. It is like he has washed our bodies with clean water.