Hebrews 9:23

For 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.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

In Context

22And by the law almost all things are made clean with blood, and without blood there is no forgiveness.

24For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us.

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Cross References

Luke 24:46And he said to them, So it is in the Writings that the Christ would undergo death, and come back to life again on the third day;

Colossians 2:17For these are an image of the things which are to come; but the body is Christ's.

Hebrews 9:9And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean,

Hebrews 9:24For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us.

Hebrews 10:4Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins.

1 Peter 1:19But through holy blood, like that of a clean and unmarked lamb, even the blood of Christ:

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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