Hebrews 9:14

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Πόσῳ μᾶλλον τὸ αἷμα τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ὃς διὰ Πνεύματος αἰωνίου ἑαυτὸν προσήνεγκεν ἄμωμον τῷ Θεῷ, καθαριεῖ τὴν συνείδησιν ὑμῶν ἀπὸ νεκρῶν ἔργων εἰς τὸ λατρεύειν Θεῷ ζῶντι;

Transliteration

How much mallon to haima tou Christou, who through Pneumatos aiōniou heauton prosēnegken amōmon tō Theō, kathariei tēn syneidēsin hymōn apo nekrōn ergōn eis to latreuein Theō zōnti?

Grammar Details

• *Posō*: dative neuter singular interrogative - 'how much'
• *mallon*: adverb, comparative - 'more/rather'
• *to haima*: nominative neuter singular - 'the blood'
• *tou Christou*: genitive masculine singular - 'of Christ'
• *hos*: relative pronoun, nominative masculine singular - 'who'
• *dia*: preposition with genitive - 'through'
• *Pneumatos aiōniou*: genitive neuter singular + genitive adjective - 'eternal Spirit'
• *heauton*: accusative masculine singular reflexive pronoun - 'himself'
• *prosēnegken*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - 'offered'
• *amōmon*: accusative masculine singular adjective - 'unblemished/spotless'
• *tō Theō*: dative masculine singular - 'to God'
• *kathariei*: future active indicative, 3rd person singular - 'will cleanse'
• *tēn syneidēsin*: accusative feminine singular - 'the conscience'
• *hymōn*: genitive plural personal pronoun - 'of you/your'
• *apo*: preposition with genitive - 'from'
• *nekrōn*: genitive masculine plural adjective - 'dead'
• *ergōn*: genitive neuter plural - 'works'
• *eis*: preposition with accusative - 'for/unto'
• *to latreuein*: articular present active infinitive - 'the serving'
• *Theō*: dative masculine singular - 'to God'
• *zōnti*: present active participle, dative masculine singular - 'living'

Word Meanings

• *mallon*: more/rather/instead
• *haima*: blood
• *Pneumatos aiōniou*: eternal Spirit/everlasting Spirit
• *prosēnegken*: offered/presented/brought
• *amōmon*: unblemished/spotless/without defect
• *kathariei*: will cleanse/purify/make clean
• *syneidēsin*: conscience/moral consciousness
• *nekrōn ergōn*: dead works/useless deeds
• *latreuein*: to serve/worship/minister to
• *zōnti*: living/alive

Referenced Verses

• 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 because also Christ once for sin did suffer -- righteous for unrighteous -- that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit,
• Heb 1:3 : 3 who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might -- through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,
• Heb 6:1 : 1 Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,
• Heb 9:12 : 12 neither through blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, did enter in once into the holy places, age-during redemption having obtained;
• Heb 10:22 : 22 may we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed with pure water;
• Titus 2:14 : 14 who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;
• 1 Pet 1:19 : 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted -- Christ's --
• Heb 10:2 : 2 since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified?
• Heb 7:27 : 27 who hath no necessity daily, as the chief priests, first for his own sins to offer up sacrifice, then for those of the people; for this he did once, having offered up himself;
• Jer 10:10 : 10 And Jehovah `is' a God of truth, He `is' a living God, and a king age-during, From His wrath shake doth the earth, And nations endure not His indignation.
• Rom 6:13 : 13 neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;
• Eph 5:2 : 2 and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,
• Acts 14:15 : 15 and saying, `Men, why these things do ye? and we are men like-affected with you, proclaiming good news to you, from these vanities to turn unto the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all the things in them;
• 1 Pet 4:2 : 2 no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;
• 1 John 1:7 : 7 and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light -- we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;
• 1 John 3:5 : 5 and ye have known that he was manifested that our sins he may take away, and sin is not in him;
• Rev 1:5 : 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood,
• Rom 1:4 : 4 who is marked out Son of God in power, according to the Spirit of sanctification, by the rising again from the dead,) Jesus Christ our Lord;
• Rom 1:20 : 20 for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead -- to their being inexcusable;
• 1 Pet 2:22 : 22 who did not commit sin, nor was guile found in his mouth,
• 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,
• Heb 11:21 : 21 by faith Jacob dying -- each of the sons of Joseph did bless, and did bow down upon the top of his staff;
• 1 Thess 1:9 : 9 for they themselves concerning us do declare what entrance we had unto you, and how ye did turn unto God from the idols, to serve a living and true God,
• 1 Tim 1:17 : 17 and to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only wise God, `is' honour and glory -- to the ages of the ages! Amen.
• 1 Tim 3:15 : 15 and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth `thee' to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God -- a pillar and foundation of the truth,
• Heb 9:7 : 7 and into the second, once in the year, only the chief priest, not apart from blood, which he doth offer for himself and the errors of the people,
• Heb 9:9 : 9 which `is' a simile in regard to the present time, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, which are not able, in regard to conscience, to make perfect him who is serving,
• Rom 6:22 : 22 And now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit -- to sanctification, and the end life age-during;
• Rom 11:12 : 12 and if the fall of them `is' the riches of a world, and the diminution of them the riches of nations, how much more the fulness of them?
• Rom 11:24 : 24 for if thou, out of the olive tree, wild by nature, wast cut out, and, contrary to nature, wast graffed into a good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who `are' according to nature, be graffed into their own olive tree?
• 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.
• 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said -- `I will dwell in them, and will walk among `them', and I will be their God, and they shall be My people,
• Gal 2:19 : 19 for I through law, did die, that to God I may live;
• Eph 2:5 : 5 even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)
• Dan 6:26 : 26 From before me is made a decree, that in every dominion of my kingdom they are trembling and fearing before the God of Daniel, for He `is' the living God, and abiding to the ages, and His kingdom that which `is' not destroyed, and His dominion `is' unto the end.
• Dan 9:24-26 : 24 `Seventy weeks are determined for thy people, and for thy holy city, to shut up the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to cover iniquity, and to bring in righteousness age-during, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies. 25 And thou dost know, and dost consider wisely, from the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem till Messiah the Leader `is' seven weeks, and sixty and two weeks: the broad place hath been built again, and the rampart, even in the distress of the times. 26 And after the sixty and two weeks, cut off is Messiah, and the city and the holy place are not his, the Leader who hath come doth destroy the people; and its end `is' with a flood, and till the end `is' war, determined `are' desolations.
• Matt 7:11 : 11 if, therefore, ye being evil, have known good gifts to give to your children, how much more shall your Father who `is' in the heavens give good things to those asking him?
• Matt 12:28 : 28 `But if I, by the Spirit of God, do cast out the demons, then come already unto you did the reign of God.
• Matt 20:28 : 28 even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'
• Luke 1:74 : 74 To give to us, without fear, Out of the hand of our enemies having been delivered,
• Luke 4:18 : 18 `The Spirit of the Lord `is' upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance,
• Luke 12:24 : 24 `Consider the ravens, that they sow not, nor reap, to which there is no barn nor storehouse, and God doth nourish them; how much better are ye than the fowls?
• Luke 12:28 : 28 and if the herbage in the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow into an oven is cast, God doth so clothe, how much more you -- ye of little faith?
• John 3:34 : 34 for he whom God sent, the sayings of God he speaketh; for not by measure doth God give the Spirit;
• Acts 1:2 : 2 till the day in which, having given command, through the Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom he did choose out, he was taken up,
• Acts 10:38 : 38 Jesus who `is' from Nazareth -- how God did anoint him with the Holy Spirit and power; who went through, doing good, and healing all those oppressed by the devil, because God was with him;
• Lev 22:20 : 20 nothing in which `is' blemish do ye bring near, for it is not for a pleasing thing for you.
• Num 19:2-9 : 2 `This `is' a statute of the law which Jehovah hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the sons of Israel, and they bring unto thee a red cow, a perfect one, in which there is no blemish, on which no yoke hath gone up; 3 and ye have given it unto Eleazar the priest, and he hath brought it out unto the outside of the camp, and hath slaughtered it before him. 4 `And Eleazar the priest hath taken of its blood with his finger, and hath sprinkled over-against the front of the tent of meeting of her blood seven times; 5 and `one' hath burnt the cow before his eyes; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, besides her dung, he doth burn; 6 and the priest hath taken cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and hath cast unto the midst of the burning of the cow; 7 and the priest hath washed his garments, and hath bathed his flesh with water, and afterwards doth come in unto the camp, and the priest is unclean till the evening; 8 and he who is burning it doth wash his garments with water, and hath bathed his flesh with water, and is unclean till the evening. 9 `And a clean man hath gathered the ashes of the cow, and hath placed at the outside of the camp, in a clean place, and it hath become to the company of the sons of Israel a charge for waters of separation -- it `is' a `cleansing'; 10 and he who is gathering the ashes of the heifer hath washed his garments, and is unclean till the evening; and it hath been to the sons of Israel, and to the sojourner who is sojourning in their midst, for a statute age-during. 11 `He who is coming against the dead body of any man -- is unclean seven days; 12 he doth cleanse himself for it on the third day, and on the seventh day he is clean; and if he cleanse not himself on the third day, then on the seventh day he is not clean. 13 Any one who is coming against the dead, against the body of man who dieth, and cleanseth not himself -- the tabernacle of Jehovah he hath defiled, and that person hath been cut off from Israel, for water of separation is not sprinkled upon him; he is unclean; his uncleanness `is' still upon him. 14 `This `is' the law, when a man dieth in a tent: every one who is coming in unto the tent, and all that `is' in the tent, is unclean seven days; 15 and every open vessel which hath no covering of thread upon it is unclean. 16 `And every one who cometh, on the face of the field, against the pierced of a sword, or against the dead, or against a bone of man, or against a grave, is unclean seven days; 17 and they have taken for the unclean person of the ashes of the burning of the `cleansing', and he hath put upon it running water unto a vessel; 18 and a clean person hath taken hyssop, and hath dipped `it' in water, and hath sprinkled on the tent, and on all the vessels, and on the persons who have been there, and on him who is coming against a bone, or against one pierced, or against the dead, or against a grave. 19 `And the clean hath sprinkled `it' on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day, and hath cleansed him on the seventh day, and he hath washed his garments, and hath bathed with water, and hath been clean in the evening. 20 `And the man who is unclean, and doth not cleanse himself, even that person hath been cut off from the midst of the assembly; for the sanctuary of Jehovah he hath defiled; water of separation is not sprinkled upon him; he `is' unclean. 21 `And it hath been to them for a statute age-during, that he who is sprinkling the water of separation doth wash his garments, and he who is coming against the water of separation is unclean till the evening,
• Num 28:3 : 3 `And thou hast said to them, This `is' the fire-offering which ye bring near to Jehovah: two lambs, sons of a year, perfect ones, daily, a continual burnt-offering;
• Num 28:9 : 9 `And on the sabbath-day, two lambs, sons of a year, perfect ones, and two-tenth deals of flour, a present, mixed with oil, and its libation;
• Num 28:11 : 11 `And in the beginnings of your months ye bring near a burnt-offering to Jehovah: two bullocks, sons of the herd, and one ram, seven lambs, sons of a year, perfect ones;
• Deut 5:26 : 26 For who of all flesh `is' he who hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire like us -- and doth live?
• Deut 15:21 : 21 `And when there is in it a blemish, lame, or blind, any evil blemish, thou dost not sacrifice it to Jehovah thy God;
• Deut 17:1 : 1 `Thou dost not sacrifice to Jehovah thy God ox or sheep in which there is a blemish -- any evil thing; for it `is' the abomination of Jehovah thy God.
• Deut 31:27 : 27 for I -- I have known thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck; lo, in my being yet alive with you to-day, rebellious ye have been with Jehovah, and also surely after my death.
• Deut 33:27 : 27 A habitation `is' the eternal God, And beneath `are' arms age-during. And He casteth out from thy presence the enemy, and saith, `Destroy!'
• 1 Sam 17:26 : 26 And David speaketh unto the men who are standing by him, saying, `What is done to the man who smiteth this Philistine, and hath turned aside reproach from Israel? for who `is' this uncircumcised Philistine that he hath reproached the ranks of the living God?'
• 2 Sam 4:11 : 11 Also -- when wicked men have slain the righteous man in his own house, on his bed; and now, do not I require his blood of your hand, and have taken you away from the earth?'
• 2 Kgs 19:16 : 16 Incline, O Jehovah, Thine ear, and hear; open, O Jehovah, Thine eyes, and see; and hear Thou the words of Sennacherib with which he hath sent him to reproach the living God.
• Job 15:16 : 16 Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.
• Isa 42:1 : 1 Lo, My servant, I take hold on him, My chosen one -- My soul hath accepted, I have put My Spirit upon him, Judgment to nations he bringeth forth.
• Isa 53:9 : 9 And it appointeth with the wicked his grave, And with the rich `are' his high places, Because he hath done no violence, Nor `is' deceit in his mouth.
• Isa 57:15 : 15 For thus said the high and exalted One, Inhabiting eternity, and holy `is' His name: `In the high and holy place I dwell, And with the bruised and humble of spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of bruised ones,'
• Isa 61:1 : 1 The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah `is' on me, Because Jehovah did anoint me To proclaim tidings to the humble, He sent me to bind the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives liberty, And to bound ones an opening of bands.