Hebrews 9:14

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Hebrews 9:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

How

Matthew 7:11

Luke 12:24

Romans 11:12

Who

1 Peter 3:18

Eternal

Romans 1:20

1 Timothy 1:17

Offered

Purge

Hebrews 9:9

Hebrews 1:3

Hebrews 10:2

Dead works

Hebrews 6:1

To serve

1 Peter 4:2

General references

Acts 24:16

Bible References

How

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!

Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness mean!

Who

But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without measure.

until the day when he was taken up to heaven, after he had given orders through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.

how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.

For Christ also died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit;

Eternal

For since the creation of the world his invisible nature, even his eternal power and deity, has been clearly seen, being understood by the things that have been made. So they are without excuse;

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Offered

But into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.

He does not need, like those high priests, to offer up daily sacrifices, first for his own sins and then for the sins of the people, because he did this once for all when he offered up himself.

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, zealous for good deeds.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.

For Christ also died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit;

Purge

This is symbolic for the present time. According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper,

He is the radiance of his glory and the exact representation of his being, and upholds all things by the word of his power. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered? If the worshipers had once been cleansed, they would no longer have any consciousness of sins.

Dead works

Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

To serve

to grant us that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, might serve him without fear,

Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but yield yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.

For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God.

For they themselves report about us what kind of a reception we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,

so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human lusts, but for the will of God.

General references

And so I do my best always to have a clear conscience before God and men.