Hebrews 9

1Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary.Cross-references: Ex 25:8 · Lev 18:3 · Lev 18:30 · Lev 22:9 · Num 9:12 · Ezek 43:11 · +6 more

2For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lamp stand, the table, and the show bread, which is called the Holy Place.Cross-references: Ex 25:8 · Ex 25:23 · Ex 26:33 · Ex 26:35 · Ex 29:1 · Ex 29:35 · +9 more

3After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,Cross-references: Ex 26:31 · Ex 36:35 · Ex 40:3 · Ex 40:21 · 1Ki 8:6 · 2Chr 3:14 · +5 more

4having a golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;Cross-references: Ex 16:32 · Ex 25:10 · Ex 26:33 · Ex 30:1 · Ex 34:29 · Ex 37:1 · +14 more

5and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can’t speak now in detail.Cross-references: Ex 25:17 · Ex 37:6 · Lev 16:2 · Lev 16:13 · Num 7:89 · 1Sam 4:4 · +8 more

6Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,Cross-references: Ex 27:21 · Ex 30:7 · Num 28:3 · 2Chr 26:16 · Dan 8:11 · Luke 1:8

7but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the errors of the people.Cross-references: Ex 30:10 · Lev 5:18 · Lev 16:2 · Lev 16:34 · 2Sam 6:7 · 2Chr 33:9 · +13 more

8The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing.Cross-references: Isa 63:11 · John 10:7 · John 10:9 · John 14:6 · Acts 7:51 · Acts 28:25 · +8 more

9This is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect,Cross-references: Ps 40:6 · Ps 51:16 · Rom 5:14 · Gal 3:21 · Heb 5:1 · Heb 7:11 · +9 more

10being only (with foods and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.Cross-references: Ex 29:4 · Ex 30:19 · Ex 40:12 · Lev 11:2 · Lev 14:8 · Lev 16:4 · +23 more

11But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,Cross-references: Gen 49:10 · Ps 40:7 · Isa 59:20 · Mal 3:1 · Matt 2:6 · Matt 11:3 · +20 more

12nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.Cross-references: Lev 8:2 · Lev 9:15 · Lev 16:5 · Dan 9:24 · Zech 3:9 · Mark 3:29 · +20 more

13For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh,Cross-references: Lev 16:14 · Num 8:7 · Num 19:2 · 2Chr 30:19 · Ps 51:7 · Acts 15:9 · +1 more

14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?Cross-references: Lev 22:20 · Num 19:2 · Num 28:3 · Num 28:9 · Num 28:11 · Deut 5:26 · +58 more

15For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.Cross-references: Ps 37:18 · Isa 53:10 · Dan 9:26 · Matt 19:29 · Matt 25:34 · Matt 25:36 · +39 more

16For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it.Cross-references: Rom 5:12 · Rom 6:23 · 1Cor 15:22 · James 2:10

17For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.Cross-references: Gen 48:21 · John 14:27 · Gal 3:15

18Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood.Cross-references: Ex 12:22 · Ex 24:3 · Heb 8:7 · Heb 9:14 · Heb 9:22

19For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,Cross-references: Ex 12:22 · Ex 24:5 · Lev 1:2 · Lev 1:10 · Lev 3:6 · Lev 14:4 · +16 more

20saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you.”Cross-references: Ex 24:8 · Deut 29:12 · Josh 9:6 · Zech 9:11 · Matt 26:28 · Heb 13:20

21He sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in the same way with the blood.Cross-references: Ex 29:12 · Ex 29:20 · Ex 29:36 · Lev 8:15 · Lev 8:19 · Lev 9:8 · +4 more

22According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.Cross-references: Lev 4:20 · Lev 4:26 · Lev 4:35 · Lev 5:10 · Lev 5:12 · Lev 5:18 · +6 more

23It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.Cross-references: Luke 24:26 · Luke 24:46 · John 14:3 · Col 2:17 · Heb 8:5 · Heb 9:9 · +7 more

24For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;Cross-references: Ex 28:12 · Ex 28:29 · Ps 68:18 · Zech 3:1 · Mark 14:58 · Mark 16:19 · +22 more

25nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,Cross-references: Ex 30:10 · Lev 16:2 · Heb 9:7 · Heb 9:12 · Heb 9:14 · Heb 9:26 · +2 more

26or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.Cross-references: Lev 16:21 · 2Sam 12:13 · 2Sam 24:10 · Job 7:21 · Isa 2:2 · Dan 9:24 · +25 more

27Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,Cross-references: Gen 3:19 · 2Sam 14:14 · Job 14:5 · Job 19:25 · Job 30:23 · Ps 89:48 · +18 more

28so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.Cross-references: Lev 10:17 · Num 18:1 · Num 18:23 · Isa 25:9 · Isa 53:4 · Isa 53:11 · +25 more