Hebrews 9:22

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

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

In Context

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

23For 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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Cross References

Leviticus 4:26And all the fat of it is to be burned on the altar like the fat of the peace-offering; and the priest will take away his sin and he will have forgiveness.

Leviticus 5:10And the second is for a burned offering, in agreement with the law; and the priest will take away his sin and he will have forgiveness.

Leviticus 5:18Let him come to the priest with a sheep, a male without any mark out of the flock, of the value fixed by you, as an offering for his error; and the priest will take away the sin which he did in error, and he will have forgiveness.

Leviticus 14:6And he will take the living bird and the wood and the red thread and the hyssop and put them in the blood of the bird which was put to death over flowing water.

Leviticus 14:25And he will put to death the lamb of the offering for wrongdoing and the priest will take some of the blood of the offering for wrongdoing and put it on the point of the right ear of him who is to be made clean, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot;

Leviticus 17:11For the life of the flesh is in its blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to take away your sin: for it is the blood which makes free from sin because of the life in it.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 9:16-23

The Priesthood of Christ. ( a. d. 62.) 15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. 16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. 18 Whereupon neither the first… Read the whole commentary →

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