Hebrews 9:14

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Hebrews 9:14

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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 how rebellious and stubborn you are. Behold, even today while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against the LORD. How much more after my death!

How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?"

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water!

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 full inclusion mean!

Who

Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

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

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

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

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

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

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

For Christ also suffered once for sins, 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

The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy before you and said, Destroy.

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.

For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever 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 unintentional sins of the people.

He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself.

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

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

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

who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.

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

For Christ also suffered once for sins, 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

(which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper,

He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

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

Dead works

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

To serve

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

Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.

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

For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,

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

General references

"Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.

Then the anointed priest shall bring some of the blood of the bull into the tent of meeting,

And anyone who touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.

For on this day shall atonement be made for you to cleanse you. You shall be clean before the LORD from all your sins.

if it is to be accepted for you it shall be a male without blemish, of the bulls or the sheep or the goats.

Then a clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the persons who were there and on whoever touched the bone, or the slain or the dead or the grave.

I will cleanse them from all the guilt of their sin against me, and I will forgive all the guilt of their sin and rebellion against me.

After he has become clean, they shall count seven days for him.

So I always take pains to have a clear conscience toward both God and man.