14 combien plus le sang du Christ, qui, par l’Esprit éternel, s’est offert lui-même à Dieu sans tache, purifiera-t-il votre conscience des oeuvres mortes, pour que vous serviez le Dieu vivant!15 Et c’est pourquoi il est médiateur d’une nouvelle alliance, en sorte que, la mort étant intervenue pour la rançon des transgressions qui étaient sous la première alliance, ceux qui sont appelés reçoivent l’héritage éternel qui a été promis.16 (Car là où il y a un testament, il est nécessaire que la mort du testateur intervienne;17 car un testament est valide lorsque la mort est intervenue, puisqu’il n’a pas de force tant que le testateur vit.)18 De là vient qu’aussi la première alliance n’a pas été inaugurée sans du sang.19 Car chaque commandement, pour ce qui concerne la loi, ayant été proclamé par Moïse à tout le peuple, il prit le sang des veaux et des boucs, avec de l’eau et de la laine écarlate et de l’hysope, et en fit aspersion sur le livre lui-même et sur tout le peuple,20 en disant: “C’est ici le sang de l’alliance que Dieu vous a ordonnée”.21 Et, de la même manière, il fit aspersion du sang sur le tabernacle aussi et sur tous les ustensiles du service.22 Et presque toutes choses sont purifiées par du sang, selon la loi; et sans effusion de sang il n’y a pas de rémission.23 Il était donc nécessaire que les images des choses qui sont dans les cieux fussent purifiées par de telles choses, mais que les choses célestes elles-mêmes le fussent par de meilleurs sacrifices que ceux-là.24 Car le Christ n’est pas entré dans des lieux saints faits de main, copies des vrais, mais dans le ciel même, afin de paraître maintenant pour nous devant la face de Dieu,
John 3
1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?”5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”9 Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?”10 Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?11 Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?13 No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.16 “For God so loved the world,
that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”
