Verse 18
Hebrews 9:18
Free Bible Version
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According to ceremonial law, almost everything is made clean with blood, and without shedding blood nothing is made ritually free from the stain of sin.
Original Language Text
greek
ὅθεν οὐδὲ ἡ πρώτη χωρὶς αἵματος ἐγκεκαίνισται·
English Translation
Therefore, neither the first is inaugurated without blood.
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Chapter 9 Context
1
The former system had instructions as to how to worship, and an earthly sanctuary.
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The first room in the Tabernacle housed the candlestick, the table, and the sacred bread. This was c...
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3
This contained the golden altar of incense, the gold-covered “agreement chest.” Inside this were the...
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4
Above this were the glorious angel cherubim covering the place of reconciliation. We can't discuss a...
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5
Once all of this had been set up, the priests would go in regularly to the first room of the Taberna...
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But only the high priest went into the second room, and only once a year. Even then he had to make a...
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7
This is an illustration for us in the present, showing us that the gifts and sacrifices that are off...
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8
They're just religious regulations—about food and drink, and various ceremonies involving washing—wh...
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9
Christ has come as a high priest of all the good experiences we now have. He went into the greater,...
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10
He didn't enter through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood. He entered once, f...
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For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a cow sprinkled on those who are ritually uncle...
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how much more does the blood of Christ—who offered himself in his sinless life to God (Elohim) throu...
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This is why he is the mediator of a new agreed relationship. Since a death has occurred to set them...
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14
For a will to be implemented, the person who made it must be dead.
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A will is only valid when there's been a death—and is never applied while the person who made it is...
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16
After Moses had given all the commandments of the law to everyone, he took the blood of calves and g...
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17
He said to them, “This is the blood of the agreed relationship that God (Elohim) has told you he wan...
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18
According to ceremonial law, almost everything is made clean with blood, and without shedding blood...
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So if the copies of what is in heaven needed to be cleansed in this way, the things in heaven needed...
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20
For Christ hasn't entered a Most Holy Place constructed by human beings that is only a pattern of th...
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21
This was not to repeatedly offer himself, like a high priest has to enter the Most Holy Place year a...
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Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. No: just this...
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23
Just as human beings die only once, and then are judged,
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so too for Christ—having been sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people, he will come aga...
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