Hebrews 9:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For this cause it was necessary to make the copies of the things in heaven clean with these offerings; but the things themselves are made clean with better offerings than these.

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  • Heb 8:5 : 5 Being servants of that which is a copy and an image of the things in heaven, as Moses, when he was about to make the Tent, had special orders from God: for, See, he said, that you make everything like the design which you saw in the mountain.
  • Heb 9:24 : 24 For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us.
  • Heb 10:1 : 1 For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean.
  • Heb 10:4 : 4 Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins.
  • Heb 10:10-17 : 10 By that pleasure we have been made holy, by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for ever. 11 And every priest takes his place at the altar day by day, doing what is necessary, and making again and again the same offerings which are never able to take away sins. 12 But when Jesus had made one offering for sins for ever, he took his place at the right hand of God; 13 And has been waiting there from that time, till all who are against him are made a foot-rest for his feet. 14 Because by one offering he has made complete for ever those who are made holy. 15 And the Holy Spirit is a witness for us: for after he had said, 16 This is the agreement which I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws in their hearts, writing them in their minds; he said, 17 And I will keep no more memory of their sins and of their evil-doings.
  • 1 Pet 1:19-21 : 19 But through holy blood, like that of a clean and unmarked lamb, even the blood of Christ: 20 Who was marked out by God before the making of the world, but was caused to be seen in these last times for you, 21 Who through him have faith in God who took him up again from the dead into glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.
  • Rev 5:9 : 9 And their voices are sounding in a new song, saying, It is right for you to take the book and to make it open: for you were put to death and have made an offering to God of your blood for men of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation,
  • Luke 24:26 : 26 Was it not necessary for the Christ to go through these things, and to come into his glory?
  • Luke 24:46 : 46 And he said to them, So it is in the Writings that the Christ would undergo death, and come back to life again on the third day;
  • John 14:3 : 3 And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come back again and will take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am.
  • Col 2:17 : 17 For these are an image of the things which are to come; but the body is Christ's.
  • Heb 9:9-9 : 9 And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean, 10 Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right. 11 But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world, 12 And has gone once and for ever into the holy place, having got eternal salvation, not through the blood of goats and young oxen, but through his blood.
  • Heb 9:14 : 14 How much more will the blood of Christ, who, being without sin, made an offering of himself to God through the Holy Spirit, make your hearts clean from dead works to be servants of the living God?

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  • Heb 9:18-22
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    18So that even the first agreement was not made without blood.

    19For when Moses had given all the rules of the law to the people, he took the blood of goats and young oxen, with water and red wool and hyssop, and put it on the book itself and on all the people,

    20Saying, This blood is the sign of the agreement which God has made with you.

    21And the blood was put on the Tent and all the holy vessels in the same way.

    22And by the law almost all things are made clean with blood, and without blood there is no forgiveness.

  • Heb 9:24-26
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    24For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us.

    25And he did not have to make an offering of himself again and again, as the high priest goes into the holy place every year with blood which is not his;

    26For then he would have undergone a number of deaths from the time of the making of the world: but now he has come to us at the end of the old order, to put away sin by the offering of himself.

  • Heb 9:5-14
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    5And over it were the winged ones of glory with their wings covering the mercy-seat; about which it is not possible now to say anything in detail.

    6Now while these things were in existence, the priests went into the first Tent at all times, for prayer and the making of offerings.

    7But only the high priest went into the second, once a year, not without making an offering of blood for himself and for the errors of the people:

    8The Holy Spirit witnessing by this that the way into the holy place had not at that time been made open, while the first Tent was still in being;

    9And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean,

    10Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.

    11But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world,

    12And has gone once and for ever into the holy place, having got eternal salvation, not through the blood of goats and young oxen, but through his blood.

    13For if the blood of goats and oxen, and the dust from the burning of a young cow, being put on the unclean, make the flesh clean:

    14How much more will the blood of Christ, who, being without sin, made an offering of himself to God through the Holy Spirit, make your hearts clean from dead works to be servants of the living God?

  • Heb 8:2-6
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    2As a servant of the holy things and of the true Tent, which was put up by God, not by man.

    3Now every high priest is given authority to take to God the things which are given and to make offerings; so that it is necessary for this man, like them, to have something for an offering.

    4If he had been on earth he would not have been a priest at all, because there are other priests who make the offerings ordered by the law;

    5Being servants of that which is a copy and an image of the things in heaven, as Moses, when he was about to make the Tent, had special orders from God: for, See, he said, that you make everything like the design which you saw in the mountain.

    6But now his position as priest is higher. because through him God has made a better agreement with man, based on the giving of better things.

  • Heb 10:1-5
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    1For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean.

    2For if this had been possible, would there not have been an end of those offerings, because the worshippers would have been made completely clean and would have been no longer conscious of sins?

    3But year by year there is a memory of sins in those offerings.

    4Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins.

    5So that when he comes into the world, he says, You had no desire for offerings, but you made a body ready for me;

  • Heb 13:10-12
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    10We have an altar from which those priests who are servants in the Tent may not take food.

    11For the bodies of the beasts whose blood is taken into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin are burned outside the circle of the tents.

    12For this reason Jesus was put to death outside the walls, so that he might make the people holy by his blood.

  • Heb 9:1-3
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    1Now the first agreement had its rules of worship, and a holy order.

    2For the first Tent was made ready, having in it the vessels for the lights and the table and the ordering of the bread; and this is named the holy place.

    3And inside the second veil was the place which is named the Holy of holies;

  • Heb 10:19-20
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    19So then, my brothers, being able to go into the holy place without fear, because of the blood of Jesus,

    20By the new and living way which he made open for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

  • Heb 7:26-27
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    26It was right for us to have such a high priest, one who is holy and without evil, doing no wrong, having no part with sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

    27Who has no need to make offerings for sins every day, like those high priests, first for himself, and then for the people; because he did this once and for ever when he made an offering of himself.

  • Lev 16:19
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    19Shaking drops of the blood from his finger on it seven times to make it holy and clean from whatever is unclean among the children of Israel.

  • Heb 2:17
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    17Because of this it was necessary for him to be made like his brothers in every way, so that he might be a high priest full of mercy and keeping faith in everything to do with God, making offerings for the sins of the people.

  • Heb 7:19
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    19(Because the law made nothing complete), and in its place there is a better hope, through which we come near to God.

  • Heb 12:23-24
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    23To the great meeting and church of the first of those who are named in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of good men made complete,

    24And to Jesus by whom the new agreement has been made between God and man, and to the sign of the blood which says better things than Abel's blood.

  • 1 Pet 1:19
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    19But through holy blood, like that of a clean and unmarked lamb, even the blood of Christ:

  • Heb 10:11
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    11And every priest takes his place at the altar day by day, doing what is necessary, and making again and again the same offerings which are never able to take away sins.

  • Lev 16:14
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    14And let him take some of the blood of the ox, shaking drops of it from his finger on the cover of the ark on the east side, and before it, seven times.

  • Heb 7:12
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    12Because if the priests are changed, it is necessary to make a change in the law.

  • Heb 10:9
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    9Then he said, See, I have come to do your pleasure. He took away the old order, so that he might put the new order in its place.

  • Heb 5:1
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    1Every high priest who is taken from among men is given his position to take care of the interests of men in those things which have to do with God, so that he may make offerings for sins.

  • Num 31:23
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    23And anything which may be heated, is to go through the fire and be made clean; but in addition it is to be put in the water of cleaning: and anything which may not go through the fire is to be put in the water.