14how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
15And because of this, of a new covenant he is mediator, that, death having come, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those called may receive the promise of the age-during inheritance,
16for where a covenant [is], the death of the covenant-victim to come in is necessary,
17for a covenant over dead victims [is] stedfast, since it is no force at all when the covenant-victim liveth,
18whence not even the first apart from blood hath been initiated,
19for every command having been spoken, according to law, by Moses, to all the people, having taken the blood of the calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, he both the book itself and all the people did sprinkle,
20saying, `This [is] the blood of the covenant that God enjoined unto you,`
