Hebrews 9:23
It is necessary therefore that the patterns of heavenly things should be cleansed with these: but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Luke 24:46And he said to them: Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise again from the dead, the third day:
Colossians 2:17Which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ.
Hebrews 9:9Which is a parable of the time present: according to which gifts and sacrifices are offered, which can not, as to the conscience, make him perfect that serveth, only in meats and in drinks,
Hebrews 9:24For Jesus is not entered into the holies made with hands, the patterns of the true: but into heaven itself, that he may appear now in the presence of God for us.
Hebrews 10:4For it is impossible that with the blood of oxen and goats sin should be taken away.
1 Peter 1:19But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled,
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 →