Day of Atonement: the Supremacy of Christ The High Priest Forever

Heb 7:15  And this is clearer still, if another priest arises according to the likeness of Melchizedek, 16  who has become such not on the basis of a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life. 

Heb 7:17  For it is attested of Him, "YOU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK." 

Heb 7:22  so much the more also Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant. 23  The former priests, on the one hand, existed in greater numbers because they were prevented by death from continuing, 24  but Jesus, on the other hand, because He continues forever, holds His priesthood permanently. 

Heb 7:25  Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. 

Heb 7:26  For it was fitting for us to have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners and exalted above the heavens; 

Heb 7:27  who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people, because this He did once for all when He offered up Himself. 

Heb 8:6  But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises. 7  For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second. 

Heb 9:11  But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation; 

Heb 9:12  and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. 

Heb 9:13  For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, 

Heb 9:14  how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 

Heb 9:15  For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. 

Heb 9:16  For where a covenant is, there must of necessity be the death of the one who made it. 

Heb 9:17  For a covenant is valid only when men are dead, for it is never in force while the one who made it lives. 

Heb 9:18  Therefore even the first covenant was not inaugurated without blood. 

Heb 9:19  For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, 

Heb 9:20  saying, "THIS IS THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT WHICH GOD COMMANDED YOU." 

Heb 9:21  And in the same way he sprinkled both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry with the blood. 

Heb 9:22  And according to the Law, one may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. 

Heb 9:23  Therefore it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 

Heb 9:27  And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment, 

Heb 9:28  so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.