Hebrews 9:23
It was needful therefore that the copies of the things in Heaven should be cleansed in this way, but that the heavenly things themselves should be cleansed with more costly sacrifices.
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Luke 24:46and He said, "Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer and on the third day rise again from among the dead;
Colossians 2:17These were a shadow of things that were soon to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
Hebrews 9:9And this is a figure--for the time now present--answering to which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, unable though they are to give complete freedom from sin to him who ministers.
Hebrews 9:24For not into a Holy place built by men's hands--a mere copy of the reality--did Christ enter, but He entered Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.
Hebrews 10:4For 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 an unblemished and spotless 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 →