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shed for  many for  the  remission  of  sins.  5  So,
      take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock,
      over the which  the Holy Ghost has made you
      overseers, to feed the church of God, which he
      has purchased with his own blood.


      6  By  his  own  blood  he  entered  once  into  the
      holy place, having obtained eternal redemption
      for us. For if the blood of bulls and goats, and
      the  ashes  of  a  heifer  sprinkling  the  unclean,
      sanctifies  to  the  purifying  of  the  flesh:  how
      much  more  shall  the  blood  of  Christ,  who
      through  the  eternal  Spirit  offered  himself
      without  spot  to  God,  purge  your  conscience
      from dead works to serve the living God?


      And  for  this  cause,  he  is  the  mediator  of  the
      New  Testament  that  through  death,  for  the
      redemption  of  the  transgressions  that  were
      under  the  First  Testament,  they  which  are
      called  might  receive  the  promise  of  eternal
      inheritance.  7  And  being  made  perfect,  he
      became  the  author  of  eternal  salvation  unto

      all who obey him; Called of God a high priest
      after the order of Melchisedec.  8 In whom we
      have  redemption  through  his  blood,  even  the
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