My Lord Jesus, the Christ, has obtained a ministry that is much more excellent than the old (priesthood ministry) as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.  In the new covenant the father says, “I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God and they shall be my people; they shall know me from the least of them to the greatest for I will be merciful towards their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more. ” In speaking so of the new covenant, my heavenly father makes the first one obsolete, ready to vanish away.

When Christ appeared as the high priest of the good things that have come…, he entered once for all into the holy places, by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.  How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify my conscience from dead works to serve the living God?