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

So if you, bad as you are, know enough to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give what is good to those who ask him for it!

Think of the crows! They do not sow or reap, and they have no storehouses or barns, and God feeds them. How much more you are worth than the birds!

But if their false step has so enriched the world, and their defeat has so enriched the heathen, how much more good the addition of their full number will do!

Who

But if I am driving the demons out by the aid of God's Spirit, then the Kingdom of God has overtaken you.

"The spirit of the Lord is upon me, For he has consecrated me to preach the good news to the poor, He has sent me to announce to the prisoners their release and to the blind the recovery of their sight, To set the down-trodden at liberty,

For he whom God has sent speaks God's words, for God gives him his Spirit without measure.

until the day when through the holy Spirit he gave the apostles he had chosen their instructions, and was taken up to heaven.

about Jesus of Nazareth, and how God endowed him with the power of the holy Spirit, and he went about doing good and curing all who were in the power of the devil, because God was with him.

and decisively declared Son of God in his holiness of spirit, by being raised from the dead??esus Christ our Lord,

For Christ himself died once for all, for sin, an upright man for unrighteous men, to bring us to God, and was physically put to death, but he was made alive in the Spirit.

Eternal

Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible nature??is eternal power and divine character??ave been clearly perceptible through what he has made. So they have no excuse,

To the eternal King, immortal and invisible, the one God, be honor and glory forever and ever! Amen.

Offered

but only the high priest could enter the inner part, and he but once a year, and never without taking some victim's blood, to offer on his own behalf and for the sins committed through ignorance by the people.

who does not need, as the old high priests did, to offer sacrifices every day, first for his own sins and then for those of the people??or this last he has done once for all, in offering up himself.

just as the Son of Man has come not to be waited on, but to wait on other people, and to give his life to ransom many others."

he made us, dead as we were through our offenses, live again with the Christ. It is by his mercy that you have been saved.

and lead loving lives, just as Christ loved you and gave himself for you, as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

He gave himself for us, to free us from all wickedness and purify for himself a people of his own, eager to do right.

He carried the burden of our sins in his own body on the cross, in order that we might die to sin and live for uprightness. By his wounds you have been healed.

For Christ himself died once for all, for sin, an upright man for unrighteous men, to bring us to God, and was physically put to death, but he was made alive in the Spirit.

Purge

And all this looked toward the present time and was symbolic of the fact that the mere offering of material gifts and sacrifices cannot inwardly qualify the worshiper to approach God,

He is the reflection of God's glory, and the representation of his being, and bears up the universe by his mighty word. He has effected man's purification from sin, and has taken his seat on high at the right hand of God's Majesty,

Otherwise, would they not have ceased to offer these sacrifices, because those who offered them, having once been purified, would have had no further consciousness of sin?

Dead works

Let us therefore leave elementary Christian teaching alone and advance toward maturity. We must not be always relaying foundations, of repentance for wrong-doing, and of faith in God,

To serve

That we should be delivered from the hands of our enemies,

and you must not offer the parts of your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrong, but offer yourselves to God as men brought back from death to life, and offer the parts of your bodies to him as instruments of uprightness.

For it is through the Law that I have become dead to the Law, so that I may live for God.

For when people speak of us, they tell what a welcome you gave us, and how you turned from idols to God, to serve a true and living God,

and no longer lives by what men desire, but for the rest of his earthly life by what God wills.

General references

Therefore I strive always to have a clear conscience before God and men.