Hebrews 9:14

Wesley

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 ye then being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven, give good things to them that ask him?

Consider the ravens; for they neither sow nor reap; neither have store-house nor barn: yet God feedeth them. How much better are ye than the birds?

But if their fall be the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fulness?

Who

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

he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me, to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

For he whom God hath sent, speaketh the words of God; for God giveth not him the Spirit by measure.

Until the day he was taken up, after having thro' the Holy Ghost given commandment to the apostles, whom he had chosen:

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power, who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed by the devil; for God was with him.

who was of the seed of David, according to the flesh, But declared the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead,

For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh,

Eternal

For those things of him which are invisible, both his eternal power and Godhead, are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being understood by the things which are made, so that they are without excuse:

Now to the king of eternity, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever, Amen.

Offered

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

Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, then for those of the people: for this he did once for all, when he offered up himself.

but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.

through his great love wherewith he loved us, Hath quickened us together with Christ, even when we were dead in trespasses, (by grace ye are saved) And hath raised us up together,

as Christ also hath loved us, and given himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God of a sweet-smelling savour.

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

Who himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we being dead to sin might live to righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh,

Purge

Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, which could not perfect the worshiper as to his conscience,

Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and sustaining all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high,

Otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshipers, having been once purged, would have had no more consciousness of sins.

Dead works

Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on to perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works,

To serve

That he would grant us, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies,

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

For I through the law am dead to the law, that I may live to God.

For they themselves declare concerning us, what manner of entrance to you we had, and how ye turned from idols to God,

(for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin) That ye may no longer live the rest of your time in the flesh, to the desire of men, but to the will of God.

General references

And for this cause do I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward man.