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12 taking with him no blood of goats and calves, but his own, and secured our permanent deliverance.
13 For if sprinkling ceremonially defiled persons with the blood of bulls and goats and with the ashes of a heifer purifies them physically,
14 how much more surely will the blood of the Christ, who with the eternal Spirit made himself an unblemished offering to God, purify our consciences from the old wrongdoing for the worship of the everliving God?
15 And this is why he is the negotiator of a new agreement, in order that as someone has died to deliver them from the offenses committed under the old agreement, those who have been offered it may receive the unending inheritance they have been promised.
16 For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established,
17 for a will is valid only in the case of a person who is dead; it has no force as long as the testator is alive.