Hebrews 9:23
It was, therefore, necessary that the copies of the heavenly things should be purified with these sacrifices; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
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Luke 24:46And said to them, Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer, and rise from the dead on the third day:
Colossians 2:17Which are a shadow of things to come; but the reality belongs to Christ.
Hebrews 9:9Which is a symbol for the present age, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make the worshipper perfect in conscience;
Hebrews 9:24For Christ has not entered a holy place made with hands, a copy of the true one; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.
Hebrews 10:4For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
1 Peter 1:19But with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
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 →