For Through The Spirit He Offered Himself Without Blemish To God
13 For if the blood
of goats and bulls and
the ashes
of a heifer sprinkling the
ones having been defiled sanctifies for the cleansing
of the flesh, 14
by how much more will the blood
of Christ, Who through
theeternal Spirit[
w] offered Himself without-blemish
to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works so that
we may worship[
x]
the living God!
Thus Christ Mediates a New Covenant Inaugurated By His Own Blood
15 And for this reason He is
the mediator
of a new covenant, so that the
ones having been called may receive the promise
of the eternal inheritance—
a death having taken-place for
the redemption
from the transgressions
committed under[
y] the first covenant. 16 For where
there is a will[
z],
it is a necessity
that thedeath
of the
one having made-the-will be brought-forth. 17 For
a will over dead
ones is firm, since it does not ever have [legal] power when the
one having made-the-will is living. 18 Hence, not even the first
covenant has been inaugurated[
aa] without blood. 19 For every commandment having been spoken
to all the people by Moses according-to[
ab] the Law— having taken the blood
of the calves and the goats along with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, 20 saying “This
isthe blood
of the covenant which God commanded to you” [Ex 24:8]. 21 And he likewise sprinkled
with the blood both the tabernacle and all the objects
of the ministry. 22 Indeed according-to[
ac] the Law almost everything is cleansed[
ad] with blood, and forgiveness does not take-place[
ae] apart-from blood-shedding[
af]. 23 Therefore
it was a necessity
that the copies[
ag]
of the
things in the heavens be cleansed
with these[
ah]
things— but the heavenly
things themselves
with better sacrifices than these.
He Entered The Heavenly Temple
24 For Christ did not enter into
the Holies made-by-
human-hands— copies
of the true
things— but into heaven itself, now to appear
in the presence
of God for us.
He Offered Himself Once For All As a Sacrifice To Set Aside Sin
25 Nor
did He enter in order that He might offer Himself often— as indeed the high priest enters into the Holies yearly with
the blood belonging-to-another— 26 otherwise He
would had-to-have suffered often since
the foundation
of the world. But now He has appeared once-for-all at
the conclusion[
ai]
of the ages for
the setting-aside
of sin by the sacrifice[
aj]
of Himself.
He Will Appear To Us a Second Time For Salvation
27 And just as it is destined
for people to die once and after this
comes the judgment, 28 so also[
ak] Christ, having been offered once so as to bear[
al]
the sins
of many, will appear for
a second
time without
reference to sin
to the
ones eagerly-awaiting Him, for salvation.
Footnotes for this passage are extensive and can be found at the link to the source of this copy http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=hebrews+9&version=DLNT
