Hebrews 9:13-23

13 The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean.
14 How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death,[a] so that we may serve the living God!
15 For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.
16 In the case of a will,[b] it is necessary to prove the death of the one who made it,
17 because a will is in force only when somebody has died; it never takes effect while the one who made it is living.
18 This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.
19 When Moses had proclaimed every command of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves, together with water, scarlet wool and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people.
20 He said, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.”[c]
21 In the same way, he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and everything used in its ceremonies.
22 In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
23 It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

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Cross References 21

  • 1. Hebrews 10:4
  • 2. Nu 19:9,17,18
  • 3. 1 Peter 3:18
  • 4. S Ephesians 5:2
  • 5. Psalms 51:2; Psalms 65:3; Jeremiah 33:8; Zechariah 13:1; S Titus 2:14; Hebrews 10:2,22
  • 6. Hebrews 6:1
  • 7. S Matthew 16:16
  • 8. S Galatians 3:20; 1 Timothy 2:5
  • 9. S Luke 22:20
  • 10. S Romans 8:28; S Romans 11:29
  • 11. Hebrews 6:15; Hebrews 10:36
  • 12. S Acts 20:32
  • 13. Hebrews 7:22
  • 14. Exodus 24:6-8
  • 15. Hebrews 1:1
  • 16. ver 12
  • 17. Exodus 24:6-8
  • 18. Exodus 24:8; S Matthew 26:28
  • 19. Exodus 29:21; Leviticus 8:15
  • 20. Leviticus 17:11
  • 21. Hebrews 8:5

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Or "from useless rituals"
  • [b]. Same Greek word as "covenant" ; also in verse 17
  • [c]. Exodus 24:8
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