Hebrews 9:23

So then, it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be cleansed with such, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than those.

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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

22In fact, according to the Law nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.

24For Christ did not enter into Holy Places made by hands, mere copies of the true ones, but into Heaven itself, now to appear in God's presence on our behalf;

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Cross References

Luke 24:46And He said to them: “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

Colossians 2:17which things are but a shadow of those to come, while the body is Christ's.

Hebrews 9:9It was a figure during the time then present, a time when both gifts and sacrifices were being offered that were incapable of clearing the conscience of the worshiper—

Hebrews 9:24For Christ did not enter into Holy Places made by hands, mere copies of the true ones, but into Heaven itself, now to appear in God's presence on our behalf;

Hebrews 10:4because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

1 Peter 1:19but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a faultless and pure lamb;

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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