'Blood' in the Bible

Therefore, since the children have flesh and blood, he himself also shared the same things, so that by his death he might destroy the one who has the power of death (that is, the Devil)

But only the high priest went into the second part, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins committed by the people in ignorance.

Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood he went into the Most Holy Place once for all and secured our eternal redemption.

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are unclean purifies them physically,

how much more will the blood of the Messiah, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from dead actions so that we may serve the living God!

This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.

For after every commandment in the Law had been spoken to all the people by Moses, he took the blood of calves and goats, together with some water, scarlet wool, and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people,

saying, "This is the blood of the covenant that God ordained for you."

In the same way, he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and everything used in worship.

In fact, under the Law almost everything is cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of the blood there is no forgiveness.

Nor did he go into heaven to sacrifice himself again and again, the way the high priest goes into the Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.

for it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Therefore, my brothers, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,

How much more severe a punishment do you think that person deserves who tramples on God's Son, treats as common the blood of the covenant by which it was sanctified, and insults the Spirit of grace?

By faith he established the Passover and the sprinkling of blood to keep the destroyer of the firstborn from touching the people.

In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better message than Abel's.

For the bodies of animals, whose blood is taken into the sanctuary by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside the camp.

That is why Jesus, in order to sanctify the people by his own blood, also suffered outside the city gate.

Now may the God of peace, who by the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, the Great Shepherd of the sheep,