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## Hebrews 9:15-16 in Context (Verses 12–19 KJV)
 
 [12 ](/kjv/hebrews/9/12) Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption *for us*.
 
 [13 ](/kjv/hebrews/9/13) For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
 
 [14 ](/kjv/hebrews/9/14) 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?
 
 [15 ](/kjv/hebrews/9/15) And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions *that were* under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/hebrews/9/16) For where a testament *is*, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/hebrews/9/17) For a testament *is* of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/hebrews/9/18) Whereupon neither the first *testament* was dedicated without blood.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/hebrews/9/19) For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
 
[Hebrews 8](/kjv/hebrews/8) [Hebrews 10](/kjv/hebrews/10)

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