Hebrews 9 Free Bible Version
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1 The former system had instructions as to how to worship, and an earthly sanctuary.
1 Εἶχε μὲν οὖν [καὶ] ἡ πρώτη σκηνὴ δικαιώματα λατρείας τό τε Ἅγιον κοσμικόν.
2 The first room in the Tabernacle housed the candlestick, the table, and the sacred bread. This was called the Holy Place.
2 σκηνὴ γὰρ κατεσκευάσθη ἡ πρώτη, ἐν ᾗ ἥ τε λυχνία καὶ ἡ τράπεζα καὶ ἡ πρόθεσις τῶν ἄρτων, ἥτις λέγεται Ἅγια.
3 Past the second veil in the Tabernacle was the room called the Most Holy Place.
3 μετὰ δὲ τὸ δεύτερον καταπέτασμα σκηνὴ ἡ λεγομένη Ἅγια Ἁγίων,
4 This contained the golden altar of incense, the gold-covered “agreement chest.” Inside this were the golden pot containing manna, Aaron's rod that had produced buds, and the stone inscriptions of the agreement.
4 χρυσοῦν ἔχουσα θυμιατήριον καὶ τὴν κιβωτὸν τῆς διαθήκης περικεκαλυμμένην πάντοθεν χρυσίῳ, ἐν ᾗ στάμνος χρυσῆ ἔχουσα τὸ μάννα καὶ ἡ ῥάβδος Ἀαρὼν ἡ βλαστήσασα καὶ αἱ πλάκες τῆς διαθήκης,
5 Above this were the glorious angel cherubim covering the place of reconciliation. We can't discuss all of this in detail now.
5 ὑπεράνω δὲ αὐτῆς Χερουβὶμ δόξης κατασκιάζοντα τὸ ἱλαστήριον· περὶ ὧν οὐκ ἔστι νῦν λέγειν κατὰ μέρος.
6 Once all of this had been set up, the priests would go in regularly to the first room of the Tabernacle to perform their duties.
6 Τούτων δὲ οὕτω κατεσκευασμένων εἰς μὲν τὴν πρώτην σκηνὴν διὰ παντὸς εἰσίασιν οἱ ἱερεῖς τὰς λατρείας ἐπιτελοῦντες,
7 But only the high priest went into the second room, and only once a year. Even then he had to make a sacrifice involving blood, which he offered for himself and for the people's sins of ignorance.
7 εἰς δὲ τὴν δευτέραν ἅπαξ τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ μόνος ὁ ἀρχιερεύς, οὐ χωρὶς αἵματος, ὃ προσφέρει ὑπὲρ ἑαυτοῦ καὶ τῶν τοῦ λαοῦ ἀγνοημάτων,
8 By this the Holy Spirit indicated that the way into the true Most Holy Place hadn't been revealed while the first Tabernacle still existed.
8 τοῦτο δηλοῦντος τοῦ Πνεύματος τοῦ Ἁγίου, μήπω πεφανερῶσθαι τὴν τῶν Ἁγίων ὁδόν, ἔτι τῆς πρώτης σκηνῆς ἐχούσης στάσιν·
9 This is an illustration for us in the present, showing us that the gifts and sacrifices that are offered can't make the worshiper's conscience clear.
9 ἥτις παραβολὴ εἰς τὸν καιρὸν τὸν ἐνεστηκότα, καθ᾽ ὃν δῶρά τε καὶ θυσίαι προσφέρονται μὴ δυνάμεναι κατὰ συνείδησιν τελειῶσαι τὸν λατρεύοντα,
10 They're just religious regulations—about food and drink, and various ceremonies involving washing—which were put in place until the time of God's new way of relating to him.
10 μόνον ἐπὶ βρώμασι καὶ πόμασι καὶ διαφόροις βαπτισμοῖς καὶ δικαιώμασι σαρκός, μέχρι καιροῦ διορθώσεως ἐπικείμενα.
11 Christ has come as a high priest of all the good experiences we now have. He went into the greater, more complete Tabernacle that wasn't made by human hands—not part of this created world.
11 Χριστὸς δὲ παραγενόμενος ἀρχιερεὺς τῶν μελλόντων ἀγαθῶν διὰ τῆς μείζονος καὶ τελειοτέρας σκηνῆς, οὐ χειροποιήτου, τοῦτ᾽ ἔστιν οὐ ταύτης τῆς κτίσεως,
12 He didn't enter through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood. He entered once, for all time, into the Most Holy Place, setting us free forever.
12 οὐδὲ δι᾽ αἵματος τράγων καὶ μόσχων, διὰ δὲ τοῦ ἰδίου αἵματος εἰσῆλθεν ἐφάπαξ εἰς τὰ Ἅγια, αἰωνίαν λύτρωσιν εὑράμενος.
13 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a cow sprinkled on those who are ritually unclean make the body ceremonially clean,
13 εἰ γὰρ τὸ αἷμα ταύρων καὶ τράγων καὶ σποδὸς δαμάλεως ῥαντίζουσα τοὺς κεκοινωμένους ἁγιάζει πρὸς τὴν τῆς σαρκὸς καθαρότητα,
14 how much more does the blood of Christ—who offered himself in his sinless life to God through the eternal Spirit—clean your consciences from your past sinful lives so you can serve the living God?
14 πόσῳ μᾶλλον τὸ αἷμα τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ὃς διὰ Πνεύματος αἰωνίου ἑαυτὸν προσήνεγκεν ἄμωμον τῷ Θεῷ, καθαριεῖ τὴν συνείδησιν ὑμῶν ἀπὸ νεκρῶν ἔργων εἰς τὸ λατρεύειν Θεῷ ζῶντι;
15 This is why he is the mediator of a new agreed relationship. Since a death has occurred to set them free from the sins committed under the first agreed relationship, now those who are called can receive the promise of an eternal inheritance.
15 Καὶ διὰ τοῦτο διαθήκης καινῆς μεσίτης ἐστίν, ὅπως, θανάτου γενομένου εἰς ἀπολύτρωσιν τῶν ἐπὶ τῇ πρώτῃ διαθήκῃ παραβάσεων, τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν λάβωσιν οἱ κεκλημένοι τῆς αἰωνίου κληρονομίας.
16 For a will to be implemented, the person who made it must be dead.
16 ὅπου γὰρ διαθήκη, θάνατον ἀνάγκη φέρεσθαι τοῦ διαθεμένου·
17 A will is only valid when there's been a death—and is never applied while the person who made it is still alive.
17 διαθήκη γὰρ ἐπὶ νεκροῖς βεβαία, ἐπεὶ μήποτε ἰσχύει ὅτε ζῇ ὁ διαθέμενος.
18 That's why the first agreement was established with blood.
18 Ὅθεν οὐδ᾽ ἡ πρώτη χωρὶς αἵματος ἐγκεκαίνισται·
19 After Moses had given all the commandments of the law to everyone, he took the blood of calves and goats, and together with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, sprinkled the book itself and all the people.
19 λαληθείσης γὰρ πάσης ἐντολῆς κατὰ τὸν νόμον ὑπὸ Μωϋσέως παντὶ τῷ λαῷ, λαβὼν τὸ αἷμα τῶν μόσχων καὶ τράγων μετὰ ὕδατος καὶ ἐρίου κοκκίνου καὶ ὑσσώπου, αὐτό τε τὸ βιβλίον καὶ πάντα τὸν λαὸν ἐρράντισε
20 He said to them, “This is the blood of the agreed relationship that God has told you he wants with you.”
20 λέγων· τοῦτο τὸ αἷμα τῆς διαθήκης ἧς ἐνετείλατο πρὸς ὑμᾶς ὁ Θεός·
21 Moses sprinkled the blood in the same way on the Tabernacle and everything used in worship.
21 καὶ τὴν σκηνὴν δὲ καὶ πάντα τὰ σκεύη τῆς λειτουργίας τῷ αἵματι ὁμοίως ἐρράντισε.
22 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.
22 καὶ σχεδὸν ἐν αἵματι πάντα καθαρίζεται κατὰ τὸν νόμον, καὶ χωρὶς αἱματεκχυσίας οὐ γίνεται ἄφεσις.
23 So if the copies of what is in heaven needed to be cleansed in this way, the things in heaven needed cleansing by better sacrifices.
23 Ἀνάγκη οὖν τὰ μὲν ὑποδείγματα τῶν ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς τούτοις καθαρίζεσθαι, αὐτὰ δὲ τὰ ἐπουράνια κρείττοσι θυσίαις παρὰ ταύτας.
24 For Christ hasn't entered a Most Holy Place constructed by human beings that is only a pattern of the original. He has entered heaven itself, and now appears on our behalf, speaking for us in God's presence.
24 οὐ γὰρ εἰς χειροποίητα Ἅγια εἰσῆλθεν ὁ Χριστός, ἀντίτυπα τῶν ἀληθινῶν, ἀλλ᾽ εἰς αὐτὸν τὸν οὐρανόν, νῦν ἐμφανισθῆναι τῷ προσώπῳ τοῦ Θεοῦ ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν·
25 This was not to repeatedly offer himself, like a high priest has to enter the Most Holy Place year after year, offering blood that is not his own.
25 οὐδ᾽ ἵνα πολλάκις προσφέρῃ ἑαυτόν, ὥσπερ ὁ ἀρχιερεὺς εἰσέρχεται εἰς τὰ Ἅγια κατ᾽ ἐνιαυτὸν ἐν αἵματι ἀλλοτρίῳ·
26 Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. No: just this one time at the end of the present age he came to remove sin by sacrificing himself.
26 ἐπεὶ ἔδει αὐτὸν πολλάκις παθεῖν ἀπὸ καταβολῆς κόσμου· νῦν δὲ ἅπαξ ἐπὶ συντελείᾳ τῶν αἰώνων εἰς ἀθέτησιν ἁμαρτίας διὰ τῆς θυσίας αὐτοῦ πεφανέρωται.
27 Just as human beings die only once, and then are judged,
27 καὶ καθ᾽ ὅσον ἀπόκειται τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ἅπαξ ἀποθανεῖν, μετὰ δὲ τοῦτο κρίσις,
28 so too for Christ—having been sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people, he will come again, not to deal with sin, but to save those who wait for him.
28 οὕτω καὶ ὁ Χριστός, ἅπαξ προσενεχθεὶς εἰς τὸ πολλῶν ἀνενεγκεῖν ἁμαρτίας, ἐκ δευτέρου χωρὶς ἁμαρτίας ὀφθήσεται τοῖς αὐτὸν ἀπεκδεχομένοις εἰς σωτηρίαν.
Cross references (28)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Exodus 25:8; Hebrews 9:10–11; Hebrews 8:2; Leviticus 18:30; Leviticus 22:9
- 2 Exodus 40:4; Leviticus 24:5–8; Exodus 26:35; Exodus 40:18–20; Exodus 40:22–24
- 3 Exodus 26:31–33; Matthew 27:51; Exodus 40:21; Exodus 40:3; 1 Kings 8:6
- 4 Numbers 17:10; 2 Chronicles 5:10; Exodus 40:3; Leviticus 16:12; Exodus 26:33
- 5 Leviticus 16:2; Numbers 7:89; 1 Kings 8:6–7; Exodus 25:17–22; Psalm 99:1
- 6 Numbers 28:3; Exodus 27:21; Luke 1:8–11; 2 Chronicles 26:16–19; Daniel 8:11
- 7 Leviticus 16:34; Leviticus 5:18; Hebrews 7:27; Exodus 30:10; Hebrews 10:19–20
- 8 John 14:6; Hebrews 3:7; John 10:9; Hebrews 10:19–22; Ephesians 2:18
- 9 1 Peter 3:21; Hebrews 5:1; Hebrews 10:11; Psalm 51:16–19; Romans 5:14
- 10 Colossians 2:16; Ephesians 2:15; Hebrews 7:16; Leviticus 11:2–47; Hebrews 2:5
- 11 Hebrews 9:23–24; 2 Corinthians 5:1; Acts 17:24–25; Hebrews 8:1–2; Hebrews 10:1
- 12 Hebrews 10:4; 1 Peter 1:18–19; Hebrews 9:15; Ephesians 1:7; Hebrews 9:24–26
- 13 Numbers 19:2–21; Leviticus 16:14–16; Acts 15:9; 1 Peter 1:22; 2 Chronicles 30:19
- 14 Hebrews 10:22; 1 Peter 1:19; 1 John 1:7; Hebrews 9:12; 1 Peter 2:24
- 15 Romans 3:24–26; Romans 8:30; Hebrews 9:12; Romans 8:28; Hebrews 10:36
- 16 James 2:10; 1 Corinthians 15:22
- 17 Genesis 48:21; John 14:27; Galatians 3:15
- 18 Exodus 24:3–8; Hebrews 8:7–9; Hebrews 9:22; Hebrews 9:14; Exodus 12:22
- 19 Exodus 24:5–11; Hebrews 9:12; Numbers 19:18; Hebrews 10:4; Ezekiel 36:25
- 20 Exodus 24:8; Matthew 26:28; Hebrews 13:20; Deuteronomy 29:12; Zechariah 9:11
- 21 Leviticus 8:15; Leviticus 8:19; Exodus 29:12; Exodus 29:36; Leviticus 9:18
- 22 Leviticus 17:11; Leviticus 6:7; Leviticus 4:35; Leviticus 5:18; Leviticus 14:14
- 23 1 Peter 1:19–21; Hebrews 10:4; Hebrews 9:14; Hebrews 9:9–12; Hebrews 9:24
- 24 Hebrews 9:11–12; Hebrews 12:2; Hebrews 9:23; Hebrews 8:2; John 16:28
- 25 Hebrews 9:12; Hebrews 9:14; Hebrews 9:7; Hebrews 9:26; Hebrews 10:19
- 26 Hebrews 9:12; Hebrews 10:4; 1 Peter 1:20; Hebrews 1:2; Hebrews 9:14
- 27 2 Corinthians 5:10; Ecclesiastes 12:14; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Acts 17:31; 2 Samuel 14:14
- 28 Titus 2:13; 1 Peter 2:24; Romans 6:10; Isaiah 25:9; 2 Timothy 4:8
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He has shown from the Priest, from the Priesthood, from the Covenant, that that [dispensation] was to have an end. From this point he shows it from the fashion of the tabernacle itself. How?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 14 (1889)
"And the Lord," he saith, "will seek Him a man," meaning either David or the Mediator of the New Testament, who was figured in the chrism with which David also and his offspring was anointed.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
After the flood, a covenant was made with Noah: a covenant for Israel from Mount Sinai, but with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
This is Jesus Christ who came a High-Priest of the good things to come; who for the bountifulness of His Godhead imparted His own title to us all.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)