Hebrews 9:23

World English Bible (2000)

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 a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, "See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain."
  • Heb 9:24 : 24 For Christ hasn't entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
  • Heb 10:1 : 1 For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.
  • 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 Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins, 12 but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God; 13 from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet. 14 For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. 15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying, 16 "This is the covenant that I will make with them: 'After those days,' says the Lord, 'I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;'" then he says, 17 "I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more."
  • 1 Pet 1:19-21 : 19 but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ; 20 who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake, 21 who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.
  • Rev 5:9 : 9 They sang a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
  • Luke 24:26 : 26 Didn't the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?"
  • Luke 24:46 : 46 He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
  • John 14:3 : 3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there 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 symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshipper perfect; 10 being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation. 11 But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, 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 will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to 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 Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood.

    19 For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to 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 has commanded you."

    21 Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in the same way with the blood.

    22 According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

  • Heb 9:24-26
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    24 For Christ hasn't entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

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

    26 or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed 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 can't speak now in detail.

    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 offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.

    8 The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn't yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing;

    9 which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshipper perfect;

    10 being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

    11 But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, 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 those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh:

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

  • Heb 8:2-6
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    2 a servant 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. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.

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

    5 who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, "See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain."

    6 But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.

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

    2 Or else wouldn't they 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 yearly reminder of sins.

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

    5 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire, but you prepared a body for me;

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

    11 For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside of the camp.

    12 Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.

  • Heb 9:1-3
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    1 Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary.

    2 For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lampstand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place.

    3 After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,

  • Heb 10:19-20
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    19 Having therefore, brothers, 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 was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

    27 who doesn't need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.

  • Lev 16:19
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    19 He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and make it holy from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.

  • Heb 2:17
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    17 Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining 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), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

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

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

  • 1 Pet 1:19
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    19 but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ;

  • Heb 10:11
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    11 Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,

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

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

  • Heb 10:9
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    9 then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes 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 withstand the fire, you 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 doesn't withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water.