Hebrews 9:25

nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place year by year with blood not his own;

American Standard Version

In The King James Version

Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;

In Context

24For Christ entered not into a holy place made with hands, like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:

26else must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once at the end of the ages hath he been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

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Cross References

Exodus 30:10And Aaron shall make atonement upon the horns of it once in the year; with the blood of the sin-offering of atonement once in the year shall he make atonement for it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto Jehovah.

Hebrews 9:7but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offereth for himself, and for the errors of the people:

Hebrews 9:14how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Hebrews 10:10By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 9:24-28

The Priesthood of Christ; The Second Coming of Christ. ( a. d. 62.) 23 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. 24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: 25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year… Read the whole commentary →

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