Hebrews 9 (NET)

Hebrews 9:1¹Now the first covenant, in fact, had regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 25:8Heb 9:10-11Heb 8:2Lev 18:30Lev 18:3-4Lev 22:9Col 2:8Ezek 43:11Heb 8:7Num 9:12

Hebrews 9:2²For a tent was prepared, the outer one, which contained the lampstand, the table, and the presentation of the loaves; this is called the Holy Place.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 40:4Lev 24:5-8Exod 26:35Exod 26:33Exod 40:18-20Exod 40:22-24Exod 25:23-26:30Exod 25:8-9Exod 29:1Exod 29:35

Hebrews 9:3³And after the second curtain there was a tent called the holy of holies.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 26:31-33Exod 40:21Exod 40:3Matt 27:511 Kgs 8:6Heb 9:82 Chr 3:14Heb 10:19-20Heb 6:19Isa 25:7

Hebrews 9:4⁴It contained the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered entirely with gold. In this ark were the golden urn containing the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 17:102 Chr 5:10Exod 26:33Exod 40:3Lev 16:12Exod 16:32-34Exod 34:29Exod 40:20-21Num 17:51 Kgs 7:50

Hebrews 9:5⁵And above the ark were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Now is not the time to speak of these things in detail.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 16:2Num 7:891 Kgs 8:6-7Exod 25:17-22Lev 16:13Ps 80:1Ps 99:11 Chr 28:111 Pet 1:121 Sam 4:4

Hebrews 9:6⁶So with these things prepared like this, the priests enter continually into the outer tent as they perform their duties.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 28:3Exod 27:21Luke 1:8-112 Chr 26:16-19Dan 8:11Exod 30:7-8

Hebrews 9:7⁷But only the high priest enters once a year into the inner tent, and not without blood that he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 16:34Lev 5:18Exod 30:10Heb 10:19-20Heb 7:27Heb 9:24-25Hos 4:12Isa 28:7Isa 3:12Isa 9:16

Hebrews 9:8⁸The Holy Spirit is making clear that the way into the Holy Place had not yet appeared as long as the old tabernacle was standing.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 14:6Heb 3:7Eph 2:18Heb 10:19-22John 10:92 Pet 1:21Gal 3:8Heb 9:3Acts 28:25Isa 63:11

Hebrews 9:9⁹This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 3:21Heb 5:1Heb 10:11Ps 51:16-19Rom 5:14Gal 3:21Heb 10:1-4Heb 11:19Heb 11:39-40Heb 7:11

Hebrews 9:10¹⁰They served only for matters of food and drink and various ritual washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 2:16Eph 2:15Heb 7:16Lev 11:2-47Deut 21:6Deut 23:11Eph 1:10Exod 30:19-21Exod 40:12Ezek 4:14

Hebrews 9:11¹¹But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 9:23-242 Cor 5:1Acts 17:24-25Heb 8:1-2Heb 10:11 John 5:20Acts 7:48Heb 2:17Mark 14:582 John 1:7

Hebrews 9:12¹²and he entered once for all into the Most Holy Place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured eternal redemption.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 10:41 Pet 1:18-19Heb 9:15Eph 1:7Heb 5:9Heb 9:24-26Gal 3:13-14Lev 9:15Rev 1:5Heb 10:19

Hebrews 9:13¹³For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow sprinkled on those who are defiled consecrated them and provided ritual purity,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 19:2-21Lev 16:14-16Acts 15:91 Pet 1:222 Chr 30:19Ps 51:7Num 8:7

Hebrews 9:14¹⁴how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 10:221 Pet 1:191 John 1:7Heb 9:121 Pet 2:241 Pet 3:18Titus 2:141 Pet 4:2Heb 1:3Heb 7:27

Hebrews 9:15¹⁵And so he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance he has promised, since he died to set them free from the violations committed under the first covenant.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 3:24-26Rom 8:30Heb 9:12Rom 8:28Heb 10:361 Tim 2:5Heb 12:241 Pet 3:18Heb 7:22John 10:28

Hebrews 9:16¹⁶For where there is a will, the death of the one who made it must be proven.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 2:101 Cor 15:22

Hebrews 9:17¹⁷For a will takes effect only at death, since it carries no force while the one who made it is alive.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 48:21Gal 3:15John 14:27

Hebrews 9:18¹⁸So even the first covenant was inaugurated with blood.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 24:3-8Heb 8:7-9Heb 9:14Heb 9:22Exod 12:22

Hebrews 9:19¹⁹For when Moses had spoken every command to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 24:5-11Ezek 36:25Heb 10:4Heb 9:12Num 19:18Num 19:61 Pet 1:2Lev 14:4-7Lev 16:14-18Exod 12:22

Hebrews 9:20²⁰and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to keep.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 24:8Matt 26:28Heb 13:20Deut 29:12Zech 9:11Josh 9:6

Hebrews 9:21²¹And both the tabernacle and all the utensils of worship he likewise sprinkled with blood.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 8:15Lev 8:19Exod 29:12Exod 29:36Ezek 43:18-26Lev 16:14-19Lev 9:18Lev 9:8-92 Chr 29:19-22Exod 29:20

Hebrews 9:22²²Indeed according to the law almost everything was purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 17:11Lev 6:7Lev 4:35Lev 5:18Lev 14:14Lev 14:6Lev 5:10Lev 4:20Lev 4:26Lev 5:12

Hebrews 9:23²³So it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required better sacrifices than these.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 1:19-21Heb 10:4Heb 9:14Heb 9:9-12Heb 9:24Heb 8:5Rev 5:9Col 2:17Luke 24:26Luke 24:46

Hebrews 9:24²⁴For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands—the representation of the true sanctuary —but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God’s presence for us.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 12:2Heb 9:11-12Heb 9:23Heb 8:2John 16:28Acts 3:21Col 3:2Eph 1:20-22Eph 4:8-11Exod 28:29

Hebrews 9:25²⁵And he did not enter to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the sanctuary year after year with blood that is not his own,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 9:12Heb 9:14Heb 9:7Heb 10:19Heb 9:26Exod 30:10Heb 10:10Lev 16:2-34

Hebrews 9:26²⁶for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the consummation of the ages to put away sin by his sacrifice.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 1:20Heb 9:12Heb 1:21 Pet 3:18Heb 10:4Matt 25:341 John 3:51 Pet 2:24Heb 7:27Heb 9:14

Hebrews 9:27²⁷And just as people are appointed to die once, and then to face judgment,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 5:10Eccl 12:7Eccl 12:14Acts 17:312 Sam 14:14John 5:26-29Eccl 9:5Jude 1:15Matt 25:31-462 Tim 4:1

Hebrews 9:28²⁸so also, after Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many, to those who eagerly await him he will appear a second time, not to bear sin but to bring salvation.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Titus 2:131 Pet 2:24Isa 25:9Rom 6:102 Tim 4:8Rom 8:231 John 3:21 Thess 1:10Phil 3:20-21Acts 1:11