Hebrews 4:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Come

Ephesians 3:12

The throne

Obtain

General references

1 John 3:21

Bible References

Come

Therefore, believers, since we have confidence and full freedom to enter the Holy Place [the place where God dwells] by [means of] the blood of Jesus,

So we take comfort and are encouraged and confidently say,

“The Lord is my Helper [in time of need], I will not be afraid.
What will man do to me?”

For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading again to fear [of God’s judgment], but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons [the Spirit producing sonship] by which we [joyfully] cry, “Abba! Father!”

For it is through Him that we both have a [direct] way of approach in one Spirit to the Father.

in whom we have boldness and confident access through faith in Him [that is, our faith gives us sufficient courage to freely and openly approach God through Christ].

The throne

and above the ark were the [golden] cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat; but we cannot now go into detail about these things.

“You shall make a mercy seat (cover) of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

The Lord said to Moses,

“Tell Aaron your brother that he must not enter at any time into the Holy Place inside the veil (the Holy of Holies), before the mercy seat which is on the ark, or he will die, for I will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat.

Then David gave to his son Solomon the plan for the porch of the temple, its buildings, its treasuries, its upper chambers, its inner rooms, and for the place for the [ark and its] mercy seat;

Obtain

When its branches are dry, they are broken off;
The women come and make a fire with them.
For they are not a people of understanding,
Therefore He who made them will not have compassion on them,
And He who created them will not be gracious to them.

Seek the Lord while He may be found;
Call on Him [for salvation] while He is near.

“Ask and keep on asking and it will be given to you; seek and keep on seeking and you will find; knock and keep on knocking and the door will be opened to you.

Concerning this I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might leave me;

Do not be anxious or worried about anything, but in everything [every circumstance and situation] by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, continue to make your [specific] requests known to God.

Once you were not a people [at all], but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

General references

But Noah found favor and grace in the eyes of the Lord.

Abraham spoke to Him yet again and said, “Suppose [only] forty are found there.” And He said, “I will not do it for the sake of the forty [who are righteous].”

A glorious throne, set on high from the beginning,
Is the place of our sanctuary (the temple).

When they go in, the prince shall go in among them; and when they go out, he shall go out.

And the veil [of the Holy of Holies] of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.

in whom we have boldness and confident access through faith in Him [that is, our faith gives us sufficient courage to freely and openly approach God through Christ].

Beloved, if our heart does not convict us [of guilt], we have confidence [complete assurance and boldness] before God;