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Hebrews 9:23 — Meaning and Application

King James Version

“{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

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21

Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.

22

And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

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{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.

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For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, {which are} the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

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Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;

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