Hebrews 9:23

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So it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required better sacrifices than these.

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  • Heb 8:5 : 5 The place where they serve is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says,“See that you make everything according to the design shown to you on the mountain.”
  • Heb 9:24 : 24 For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands– the representation of the true sanctuary– but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God’s presence for us.
  • Heb 10:1 : 1 Concluding Exposition: Old and New Sacrifices Contrasted For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.
  • Heb 10:4 : 4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
  • Heb 10:10-17 : 10 By his will we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And every priest stands day after day serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again– sacrifices that can never take away sins. 12 But when this priest had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right hand of God, 13 where he is now waiting until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet. 14 For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy. 15 And the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us, for after saying, 16 “This is the covenant that I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws on their hearts and I will inscribe them on their minds,” 17 then he says,“Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no longer.”
  • 1 Pet 1:19-21 : 19 but by precious blood like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb, namely Christ. 20 He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was manifested in these last times for your sake. 21 Through him you now trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
  • Rev 5:9 : 9 They were singing a new song:“You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were killed, and at the cost of your own blood you have purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation.
  • Luke 24:26 : 26 Wasn’t it necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and enter into his glory?”
  • Luke 24:46 : 46 and said to them,“Thus it stands written that the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day,
  • John 14:3 : 3 And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come again and take you to be with me, so that where I am you may be too.
  • Col 2:17 : 17 these are only the shadow of the things to come, but the reality is Christ!
  • Heb 9:9-9 : 9 This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper. 10 They served only for matters of food and drink and various ritual washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came. 11 Christ’s Service in the Heavenly Sanctuary But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation, 12 and he entered once for all into the most holy place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured eternal redemption.
  • Heb 9:14 : 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.

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  • Heb 9:18-22
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    18 So even the first covenant was inaugurated with blood.

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

    20 and said,“This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to keep.”

    21 And both the tabernacle and all the utensils of worship he likewise sprinkled with blood.

    22 Indeed according to the law almost everything was purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

  • Heb 9:24-26
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    24 For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands– the representation of the true sanctuary– but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God’s presence for us.

    25 And he did not enter to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the sanctuary year after year with blood that is not his own,

    26 for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the consummation of the ages to put away sin by his sacrifice.

  • Heb 9:5-14
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    5 And above the ark were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Now is not the time to speak of these things in detail.

    6 So with these things prepared like this, the priests enter continually into the outer tent as they perform their duties.

    7 But only the high priest enters once a year into the inner tent, and not without blood that he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.

    8 The Holy Spirit is making clear that the way into the holy place had not yet appeared as long as the old tabernacle was standing.

    9 This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper.

    10 They served only for matters of food and drink and various ritual washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.

    11 Christ’s Service in the Heavenly Sanctuary But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

    12 and he entered once for all into the most holy place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured eternal redemption.

    13 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow sprinkled on those who are defiled consecrated them and provided ritual purity,

    14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.

  • Heb 8:2-6
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    2 a minister in the sanctuary and the true tabernacle that the Lord, not man, set up.

    3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. So this one too had to have something to offer.

    4 Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer the gifts prescribed by the law.

    5 The place where they serve is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says,“See that you make everything according to the design shown to you on the mountain.”

    6 But now Jesus has obtained a superior ministry, since the covenant that he mediates is also better and is enacted on better promises.

  • Heb 10:1-5
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    1 Concluding Exposition: Old and New Sacrifices Contrasted For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.

    2 For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once for all and so have no further consciousness of sin?

    3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year.

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

    5 So when he came into the world, he said,“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.

  • Heb 13:10-12
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    10 We have an altar that those who serve in the tabernacle have no right to eat from.

    11 For the bodies of those animals whose blood the high priest brings into the sanctuary as an offering for sin are burned outside the camp.

    12 Therefore, to sanctify the people by his own blood, Jesus also suffered outside the camp.

  • Heb 9:1-3
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    1 The Arrangement and Ritual of the Earthly Sanctuary Now the first covenant, in fact, had regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary.

    2 For a tent was prepared, the outer one, which contained the lampstand, the table, and the presentation of the loaves; this is called the holy place.

    3 And after the second curtain there was a tent called the holy of holies.

  • Heb 10:19-20
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    19 Drawing Near to God in Enduring Faith Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,

    20 by the fresh and living way that he inaugurated for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,

  • Heb 7:26-27
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    26 For it is indeed fitting for us to have such a high priest: holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

    27 He has no need to do every day what those priests do, to offer sacrifices first for their own sins and then for the sins of the people, since he did this in offering himself once for all.

  • Lev 16:19
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    19 Then he is to sprinkle on it some of the blood with his finger seven times, and cleanse and consecrate it from the impurities of the Israelites.

  • Heb 2:17
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    17 Therefore he had to be made like his brothers and sisters in every respect, so that he could become a merciful and faithful high priest in things relating to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

  • Heb 7:19
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    19 for the law made nothing perfect. On the other hand a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.

  • Heb 12:23-24
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    23 and congregation of the firstborn, who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous, who have been made perfect,

    24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks of something better than Abel’s does.

  • 1 Pet 1:19
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    19 but by precious blood like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb, namely Christ.

  • Heb 10:11
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    11 And every priest stands day after day serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again– sacrifices that can never take away sins.

  • Lev 16:14
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    14 Then he is to take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the eastern face of the atonement lid, and in front of the atonement lid he is to sprinkle some of the blood seven times with his finger.

  • Heb 7:12
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    12 For when the priesthood changes, a change in the law must come as well.

  • Heb 10:9
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    9 then he says,“Here I am: I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first to establish the second.

  • Heb 5:1
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    1 For every high priest is taken from among the people and appointed to represent them before God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

  • Num 31:23
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    23 everything that may stand the fire, you are to pass through the fire, and it will be ceremonially clean, but it must still be purified with the water of purification. Anything that cannot withstand the fire you must pass through the water.

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