Hebrews 9:14

Darby

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

Who

Eternal

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

Bible References

How

for I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck. Lo, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against Jehovah; and how much more after my death!

how much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? and should I not now demand his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

How much less the abominable and corrupt, man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!

If therefore ye, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to them that ask of him?

Consider the ravens, that they sow not nor reap; which have neither storehouse nor granary; and God feeds them. How much better are ye than the birds?

But if their fall be the world's wealth, and their loss the wealth of the nations, how much rather their fulness?

Who

Behold my servant whom I uphold, mine elect in whom my soul delighteth! I will put my Spirit upon him; he shall bring forth judgment to the nations.

The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me, because Jehovah hath anointed me to announce glad tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and opening of the prison to them that are bound;

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

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach glad tidings to the poor; he has sent me to preach to captives deliverance, and to the blind sight, to send forth the crushed delivered,

for he whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives not the Spirit by measure.

until that day in which, having by the Holy Spirit charged the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up;

Jesus who was of Nazareth: how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power; who went through all quarters doing good, and healing all that were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.

marked out Son of God in power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by resurrection of the dead) Jesus Christ our Lord;

for Christ indeed has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

Eternal

Thy refuge is the God of old, And underneath are the eternal arms; And he shall drive out the enemy from before thee, And shall say, Destroy them!

For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, and whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, and with him that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

But Jehovah Elohim is truth; he is the living God, and the King of eternity. At his wrath the earth trembleth, and the nations cannot abide his indignation.

for from the world's creation the invisible things of him are perceived, being apprehended by the mind through the things that are made, both his eternal power and divinity, so as to render them inexcusable.

Now to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only God, honour and glory to the ages of ages. Amen.

Offered

but into the second, the high priest only, once a year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the errors of the people:

who has not day by day need, as the high priests, first to offer up sacrifices for his own sins, then for those of the people; for this he did once for all in having offered up himself.

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

(we too being dead in offences,) has quickened us with the Christ, (ye are saved by grace,)

and walk in love, even as the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous for good works.

who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, in order that, being dead to sins, we may live to righteousness: by whose stripes ye have been healed.

for Christ indeed has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

Purge

the which is an image for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices, unable to perfect as to conscience him that worshipped, are offered,

who being the effulgence of his glory and the expression of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made by himself the purification of sins, set himself down on the right hand of the greatness on high,

Since, would they not indeed have ceased being offered, on account of the worshippers once purged having no longer any conscience of sins?

Dead works

Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of the Christ, let us go on to what belongs to full growth, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and faith in God,

To serve

to give us, that, saved out of the hand of our enemies, we should serve him without fear

Neither yield your members instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as alive from among the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God.

For I, through law, have died to law, that I may live to God.

for they themselves relate concerning us what entering in we had to you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,

no longer to live the rest of his time in the flesh to men's lusts, but to God's will.

General references

And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two door-posts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.

And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock's blood into the tent of meeting;

And whoever toucheth his bed shall wash his garments, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even.

for on that day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you: from all your sins shall ye be clean before Jehovah.

it shall be for your acceptance, without blemish, a male of the oxen, of the sheep, and of the goats.

and a clean man shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and upon all the utensils, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that hath touched the bone, or the one slain, or the dead person, or the grave;

And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me, and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned against me, and whereby they have transgressed against me.

And after he is cleansed, they shall count unto him seven days.

For this cause I also exercise myself to have in everything a conscience without offence towards God and men.