Hebrews 9:15

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Summary

And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

The mediator

Hebrews 8:6

Hebrews 12:24

1 Timothy 2:5

Means

Hebrews 9:16

Hebrews 2:14

Hebrews 13:20

For

The first

Hebrews 9:1

Hebrews 8:7

They which

Promise

Bible References

The mediator

but now he has obtained a more excellent service, by as much also as he is the mediator of a better covenant, which is established on better promises.

and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to a sprinkled blood which speaks better than Abel.

For there is one God, and one mediator of God and man, the man Christ Jesus,

Means

For where there is a covenant, there must follow the death of the covenant-maker.

Since then the children have partaken of blood and flesh, he in like manner also partook of them, that through death he might destroy him that has the power of death, that is the devil,

And may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of the eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

For

not with blood of goats and bullocks, but with his own blood, entered once into the sanctuary having found eternal redemption.

God having provided something better for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

being justified freely by his grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus,

For when we were yet weak, in due time Christ died for the wicked;

in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace,

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might lead us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for thou wast killed and hast redeemed to God with thy blood [men] from every tribe and tongue and people and nation,

And they sung a new song before the throne and before the four cherubs and the elders; and no one could learn the song except the hundred and forty-four thousand, who had been redeemed from the earth.

The first

The first covenant then had ordinances of divine service and a worldly sanctuary.

For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for the second. [But it was not].

They which

Whence, holy brothers, partakers of the heavenly call, consider the apostle and chief priest of our profession, Jesus,

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to [his] purpose.

whom he also called, us not of the Jews only but also of the gentiles,

to which he called you by our gospel, to obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Promise

For God haying promised Abraham, when he could not swear by a greater, swore by himself,

All these died in faith not having received the promises, but having seen and saluted them from a distance, and having professed that they were foreigners and strangers on the earth.

Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when proved he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

And this is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.