Hebrews 9:14

Williams

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, in spite of your being bad, know how to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your heavenly Father give what is good to those who keep on asking Him?

Just think of the ravens! For they neither sow nor reap, they have no storehouses nor barns, and yet God continues to feed them. How much more are you worth than the birds!

But if their stumbling has resulted in the enrichment of the world, and their overthrow becomes the enrichment of heathen peoples, how much richer the result will be when the full quota of Jews comes in!

Who

But if I by the Spirit of God am driving the demons out, then the kingdom of God has come to 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 release to captives and recovery of sight to the blind; to send the downtrodden away in liberty and

For He whom God has sent continues to speak the words of God, for God continues to give Him the Spirit without measure.

up to the day when through the Holy Spirit He gave the apostles whom He had chosen their orders, and then was taken up to heaven.

how God consecrated Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and then He went about doing good and curing all who were overpowered by the devil, because God was with Him.

proved to be God's Son in power by the resurrection from the dead -- I mean, Jesus Christ, our Lord,

For Christ Himself, once for all, died for our sins, the Innocent for the guilty to bring us to God, being put to death in physical form but made alive in the Spirit,

Eternal

Forever since the creation of the world, His invisible characteristics -- His eternal power and divine nature -- have been made intelligible and clearly visible by His works. So they are without excuse,

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

Offered

but into the second or inner part nobody but the high priest may go, and he only once a year, and never without blood which he offers for himself and for the sins committed in ignorance by the people.

who does not need, as did the Levitical priests, to offer sacrifices, first for his own sins and then for those of the people; this latter is just what He did once for all when He offered up Himself.

just as the Son of Man has come, not to be served but to serve, and to give His life a ransom price to set many free."

has made us, though dead because of our shortcomings, live again in fellowship with Christ -- it is by His unmerited favor that you have been saved.

and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

who gave Himself for us to ransom us from all iniquity and purify for Himself a people to be His very own, zealous of good works.

He bore our sins in His own body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to uprightness. By His wounds you have been healed,

For Christ Himself, once for all, died for our sins, the Innocent for the guilty to bring us to God, being put to death in physical form but made alive in the Spirit,

Purge

for it is merely a symbol of the present time in connection with which gifts and sacrifices are repeatedly offered though they cannot make the conscience of the worshiper perfect,

He is the reflection of God's glory and the perfect representation of His being, and continues to uphold the universe by His mighty word. After He had procured man's purification from sins, He took His seat at the right hand of God's majesty,

Otherwise, would they not have ceased offering them, because those who offered them, having once been purified, would have had no further consciousness of sins?

Dead works

So then let us once for all quit the elementary teaching about Christ and continue progressing toward maturity; let us stop relaying a foundation of repentance from works that mean only death, and of faith in God,

To serve

to grant us deliverance from the dreaded hand of our foes, so that we could serve Him

and you must stop offering to sin the parts of your bodies as instruments for wrongdoing, but you must once for all offer yourselves to God as persons raised from the dead to live on perpetually, and once for all offer the parts of your bodies to God as instruments for right-doing.

For through the law I myself have become dead to the law, so that I may live for God.

For the people themselves tell us what a welcome you gave us, and how you turned from idols to the true God, to serve the God who lives on and is real,

so that he no longer can spend the rest of his earthly life in harmony with human desires but in accordance with God's will.

General references

So I am always striving to have a conscience that is clear before God and men.