Hebrews 9:23

American Standard Version (1901)

It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

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  • Heb 8:5 : 5 who serve [that which is] a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses is warned [of God] when he is about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern that was showed thee in the mount.
  • Heb 9:24 : 24 For Christ entered not into a holy place made with hands, like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:
  • Heb 10:1 : 1 For the law having a shadow of the good [things] to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh.
  • Heb 10:4 : 4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
  • Heb 10:10-17 : 10 By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And every priest indeed standeth day by day ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, the which can never take away sins: 12 but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; 13 henceforth expecting till his enemies be made the footstool of his feet. 14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. 15 And the Holy Spirit also beareth witness to us; for after he hath said, 16 This is the covenant that I will make with them After those days, saith the Lord: I will put my laws on their heart, And upon their mind also will I write them; [then saith he] , 17 And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
  • 1 Pet 1:19-21 : 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, [even the blood] of Christ: 20 who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of times for your sake, 21 who through him are believers in God, that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.
  • Rev 5:9 : 9 And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou was slain, and didst purchase unto God with thy blood [men] of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,
  • Luke 24:26 : 26 Behooved it not the Christ to suffer these things, and to enter into his glory?
  • Luke 24:46 : 46 and he said unto them, Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer, and rise again from the dead the third day;
  • John 14:3 : 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I come again, and will receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also.
  • Col 2:17 : 17 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.
  • Heb 9:9-9 : 9 which [is] a figure for the time present; according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that cannot, as touching the conscience, make the worshipper perfect, 10 [ being] only (with meats and drinks and divers washings) carnal ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation. 11 But Christ having come a high priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, 12 nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption.
  • Heb 9:14 : 14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

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  • Heb 9:18-22
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    18 Wherefore even the first [covenant] hath not been dedicated without blood.

    19 For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses unto all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

    20 saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded to you-ward.

    21 Moreover the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry he sprinkled in like manner with the blood.

    22 And according to the law, I may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

  • Heb 9:24-26
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    24 For Christ entered not into a holy place made with hands, like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:

    25 nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place year by year with blood not his own;

    26 else must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once at the end of the ages hath he been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

  • Heb 9:5-14
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    5 and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat; of which things we cannot now speak severally.

    6 Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services;

    7 but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offereth for himself, and for the errors of the people:

    8 the Holy Spirit this signifying, that the way into the holy place hath not yet been made manifest, while the first tabernacle is yet standing;

    9 which [is] a figure for the time present; according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that cannot, as touching the conscience, make the worshipper perfect,

    10 [ being] only (with meats and drinks and divers washings) carnal ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

    11 But Christ having come a high priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,

    12 nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption.

    13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling them that have been defiled, sanctify unto the cleanness of the flesh:

    14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

  • Heb 8:2-6
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    2 a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

    3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that this [high priest] also have somewhat to offer.

    4 Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are those who offer the gifts according to the law;

    5 who serve [that which is] a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses is warned [of God] when he is about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern that was showed thee in the mount.

    6 But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises.

  • Heb 10:1-5
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    1 For the law having a shadow of the good [things] to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh.

    2 Else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins.

    3 But in those [sacrifices] there is a remembrance made of sins year by year.

    4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

    5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, But a body didst thou prepare for me;

  • Heb 13:10-12
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    10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat that serve the tabernacle.

    11 For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest [as an offering] for sin, are burned without the camp.

    12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered without the gate.

  • Heb 9:1-3
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    1 Now even a first [covenant] had ordinances of divine service, and its sanctuary, [a sanctuary] of this world.

    2 For there was a tabernacle prepared, the first, wherein [were] the candlestick, and the table, and the showbread; which is called the Holy place.

    3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy of holies;

  • Heb 10:19-20
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    19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,

    20 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

  • Heb 7:26-27
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    26 For such a high priest became us, holy, guileless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

    27 who needeth not daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the [sins] of the people: for this he did once for all, when he offered up himself.

  • Lev 16:19
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    19 And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleannesses of the children of Israel.

  • Heb 2:17
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    17 Wherefore it behooved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

  • Heb 7:19
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    19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw nigh unto God.

  • Heb 12:23-24
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    23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

    24 and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than [that of] Abel.

  • 1 Pet 1:19
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    19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, [even the blood] of Christ:

  • Heb 10:11
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    11 And every priest indeed standeth day by day ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, the which can never take away sins:

  • Lev 16:14
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    14 and he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy-seat on the east; and before the mercy-seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.

  • Heb 7:12
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    12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

  • Heb 10:9
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    9 then hath he said, Lo, I am come to do thy will. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

  • Heb 5:1
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    1 For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

  • Num 31:23
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    23 everything that may abide the fire, ye shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make to go through the water.

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