But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation.

We heard Him say, I will destroy this temple made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.

Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

But He was speaking of the temple of His body.

It was a comparison for the present time in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make him who performed the service perfect in regard to the conscience;

Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the Heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

a Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.

Who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His essence, and upholding all things by the Word of His power, when He had by Himself made purification for our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens;

a Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.

who serve the copy and shadow of the Heavenly things, as Moses was divinely admonished when he was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, See that you make all things according to the pattern shown to you on the mountain.

looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

You have gone up on high; You have led captivity captive; You have received gifts for men, yes, even for the rebellious; that YAH God might dwell among them.

So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was taken up into Heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

And it came to pass, while He blessed them, that He was parted from them and carried up into Heaven.

What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend where He was before?

I came forth from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father.

Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.

who also said, Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into Heaven, will so come in like manner as you have seen Him go into Heaven.

whom Heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, of which God has spoken through the mouth of all His holy prophets since the past ages.

which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenlies,

And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church,

Therefore He says: When He ascended on high, He led captive the captives, and gave gifts to men.

He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.)

Set your mind on things above, not on the things of the earth;

who has gone into Heaven and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him.

Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He lives forever to make intercession for them.

And you shall put the two stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel. Thus Aaron shall bear their names before Jehovah on his two shoulders as a memorial.

And Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel on the breastplate of judgment over his heart, when he goes into the holy place, as a memorial before Jehovah continually.

And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand to oppose him.

Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.

My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.

And another angel, having a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.