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Hebrews 9:23 Cross-References
Explore 13 cross-references for Hebrews 9:23 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Hebrews chapter 9 verse 23 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.”
Hebrews 9:23 (KJV)
Commentary on Hebrews 9:23
The earthly 'copies of things in the heavens' needed purification with animal blood, but 'the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.' This raises a question: why do heavenly things need purification? Perhaps because sin occurred in heaven (Satan's fall), or because heaven is where God deals with sin (the heavenly temple where Christ's priesthood operates). The 'better sacrifices' (plural form, singular meaning) is Christ's one sacrifice, infinitely superior.
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Hebrews 9:23
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“as of a faultless and pure lamb”
“For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.”
“who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God”
“where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable”
“which are representations of the true”
“even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle”
“saying”
“Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.”
“By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”