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Heb. 9:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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How much more shall the blood of Christ, whox through the eternal Spirit offered himself without θspot to God, purgez your conscience from dead works to servea the living God?*

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1 Peter 3:18• ¹⁸Because even Christ once suffered for sins, just for unjust, that he might bring us to God, put to death indeed in flesh, but made alive in [the] Spirit, (1 Peter 3:18)

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or, fault.

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Heb. 10:22• ²²let us approach with true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from a wicked conscience, and our body washed with pure water. (Heb. 10:22)

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1 Peter 4:2• ²no longer to live the rest of time in flesh to men's lusts but to God's will. (1 Peter 4:2)

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Ministry on This Verse

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How.

Deut. 31:27• (Deut. 31:27)

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2 Sam. 4:11• (2 Sam. 4:11)

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Job 15:16• (Job 15:16)

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Matt. 7:11• ¹¹If therefore ye, being wicked, know to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall your Father that is in the heavens give good things to those that ask him? (Matt. 7:11)

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Luke 12:24,28• ²⁴Consider the ravens, that they sow not nor reap; which have neither storehouse nor granary; and God feedeth them. How much better are ye than the birds?
²⁸But if God thus clothe the grass, which Today is in the field, and tomorrow is cast into [the] oven, how much rather you, O ye of little faith? (Luke 12:24,28)

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Rom. 11:12,24• ¹²But if their slip [be the] world's riches and their loss [the] Gentiles' riches, how much more their fullness?
²⁴For if thou hast been cut out of the naturally wild olive tree, and contrary to nature wert grafted into a good olive tree, how much more shall these that [are] natural be grafted into their own olive tree? (Rom. 11:12,24)

the blood.

Heb. 9:12• ¹²neither by blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, entered once for all into the holies, having found an everlasting redemption. (Heb. 9:12)

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1 Peter 1:19• ¹⁹but by precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, (1 Peter 1:19)

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1 John 1:7• ⁷But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus [Christ] his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7)

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Rev. 1:5• ⁵and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. To him that loveth us and washed us from our sins in his blood, (Rev. 1:5)

who.

Isa. 42:1• (Isa. 42:1)

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Isa. 61:1• (Isa. 61:1)

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Matt. 12:28• ²⁸But if by God's Spirit I cast out the demons, then hath come upon you the kingdom of God. (Matt. 12:28)

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Luke 4:18• ¹⁸[The] Spirit of [the] Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach glad tidings to [the] poor; he hath sent me [to heal the broken-hearted], to preach to captives deliverance, and to [the] blind sight, to send forth [the] crushed delivered, (Luke 4:18)

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John 3:34• ³⁴for he whom God sent speaketh the words of God; for God giveth not the Spirit by measure. (John 3:34)

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Acts 1:2• ²until the day in which, having by [the] Holy Spirit charged the apostles whom he had chosen, he was received up, (Acts 1:2)

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Acts 10:38• ³⁸Jesus of Nazareth how that God anointed him with [the] Holy Spirit and power; who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed by the devil, because God was with him. (Acts 10:38)

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Rom. 1:4• ⁴that was marked out Son of God in power according to [the] Spirit of holiness by resurrection of [the] dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, (Rom. 1:4)

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1 Peter 3:18• ¹⁸Because even Christ once suffered for sins, just for unjust, that he might bring us to God, put to death indeed in flesh, but made alive in [the] Spirit, (1 Peter 3:18)

eternal.

Deut. 33:27• (Deut. 33:27)

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Isa. 57:15• (Isa. 57:15)

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Jer. 10:10• (Jer. 10:10)

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Rom. 1:20• ²⁰For the invisible things of him from [the] world's creation are perceived, being understood by the works, both his eternal power and Godhead, that they might be inexcusable. (Rom. 1:20)

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1 Tim. 1:17• ¹⁷Now to him who is King of the ages, incorruptible, invisible, only God, [be] honour and glory unto the ages of ages. Amen. (1 Tim. 1:17)

offered.

Heb. 9:7• ⁷but into the second the high priest alone once the year, not apart from blood, which he offereth for himself and for the errors of the people: (Heb. 9:7)

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Heb. 7:27• ²⁷who hath no need day by day as the high priests, first to offer up sacrifices for his own sins, then [for] those of the people; for this he did once for all when he offered up himself. (Heb. 7:27)

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Matt. 20:28• ²⁸{i}as indeed the Son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.{/i} (Matt. 20:28)

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Eph. 2:5• ⁵even us being dead in our offences he quickened with the Christ (by grace are ye saved), (Eph. 2:5)

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Eph. 5:2• ²even as the Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for an odour of sweet smell. (Eph. 5:2)

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Titus 2:14• ¹⁴who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works. (Titus 2:14)

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1 Peter 2:24• ²⁴who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed. (1 Peter 2:24)

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1 Peter 3:18• ¹⁸Because even Christ once suffered for sins, just for unjust, that he might bring us to God, put to death indeed in flesh, but made alive in [the] Spirit, (1 Peter 3:18)

without.

Lev. 22:20• (Lev. 22:20)

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Num. 19:2‑21• (Num. 19:2‑21)

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Num. 28:3,9,11• (Num. 28:3,9,11)

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Deut. 15:21• (Deut. 15:21)

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Deut. 17:1• (Deut. 17:1)

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Isa. 53:9• (Isa. 53:9)

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Dan. 9:24‑26• (Dan. 9:24‑26)

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2 Cor. 5:21• ²¹him that knew not sin he made sin for us, that we might become God's righteousness in him. (2 Cor. 5:21)

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1 Peter 1:19• ¹⁹but by precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, (1 Peter 1:19)

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1 Peter 2:22• ²²who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth; (1 Peter 2:22)

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1 John 3:5• ⁵And ye know that he was manifested that he might take away our sins; and in him is no sin. (1 John 3:5)

spot.

or, fault.

purge.

Heb. 9:9• ⁹the which [is] a parable for the time present, according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices, unable as to conscience to perfect the worshipper, (Heb. 9:9)

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Heb. 1:3• ³who being effulgence of his glory and expression of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made [by himself] purification of our sins sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high, (Heb. 1:3)

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Heb. 10:2,22• ²Since would they not have ceased being offered on account of the worshippers once purified having no longer any conscience of sins?
²²let us approach with true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from a wicked conscience, and our body washed with pure water. (Heb. 10:2,22)

dead works.

Heb. 6:1• ¹Wherefore leaving the word of the beginning of the Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith Godward, (Heb. 6:1)

to serve.

Luke 1:74• ⁷⁴to give us, that, saved out of the hand of our enemies, we should serve him without fear, (Luke 1:74)

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Rom. 6:13,22• ¹³nor be yielding your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as alive out of [the] dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
²²But now freed from sin, and made bondservants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end life eternal. (Rom. 6:13,22)

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Gal. 2:19• ¹⁹For I, by law, died to law that I may live to God. (Gal. 2:19)

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1 Thess. 1:9• ⁹For they themselves report concerning us what sort of entrance we had unto you; and how ye turned unto God from idols to serve a living and true God, (1 Thess. 1:9)

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1 Peter 4:2• ²no longer to live the rest of time in flesh to men's lusts but to God's will. (1 Peter 4:2)

the living.

Heb. 11:21• ²¹By faith Jacob when dying blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshipped on the top of his staff. (Heb. 11:21)

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Deut. 5:26• (Deut. 5:26)

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1 Sam. 17:26• (1 Sam. 17:26)

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2 Kings 19:16• (2 Kings 19:16)

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Jer. 10:10• (Jer. 10:10)

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Dan. 6:26• (Dan. 6:26)

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Acts 14:15• ¹⁵and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like affections with you, preaching to you that ye should turn from these vain things unto a living God, who made the heaven and the earth, and the sea and all things in them; (Acts 14:15)

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2 Cor. 6:16• ¹⁶and what agreement for God's temple with idols? For ye are [the] living God's temple, even as God said, I will dwell and walk among them, and will be their God, and they shall be my people. (2 Cor. 6:16)

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1 Tim. 3:15• ¹⁵but if I should tarry, that thou mayest know how one ought to behave in God's house, seeing it is a living God's assembly, pillar and groundwork of the truth. (1 Tim. 3:15)

• As He stands alone, so does that offering of Himself; and the Holy Spirit's part in it is marked here as "an Eternal Spirit": so does eternity characterize this Epistle, and so was the Christ as ever dependent on God thus, while offering Himself up without spot to bear our sins. (“Hebrews 9:11-14” by W. Kelly)

• All the motives that governed this action, and the accomplishment of the fact according to those motives, were purely and perfectly those of the Holy Spirit; that is, absolutely divine in their perfection, but of the Holy Spirit acting in a man. (“Hebrews 9” by J.N. Darby)

• We must not confound these two things, our sins being put away, and the perfectly glorifying God in respect of sin, when Christ was made sin, the results of which are not yet accomplished. (“Hebrews 9” by J.N. Darby)

• Here we learn that He has offered Himself without spot to God. Thus we can announce to the sinner that Christ has offered Himself to God, but for you. (“The New Sacrifice: Hebrews 9:11-23” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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how much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works to worshipc the living God?

JND Translation Notes

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See Note i, ver. 9.

W. Kelly Translation

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by how much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who by [thea] eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify yourb conscience from dead works to servec a livingd God?

WK Translation Notes

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The American correctors add as a margin reading "Or, his eternal spirit," I presume to exclude the Holy Spirit from this offering,or at least to predicate it of His own spirit. But this is to miss the great truth on which Christians even from the most ancient times fell so soon away; they failed to see His perfection as man in thus ever acting in the Spirit even to the closing and crowning fact that by the Spirit He offered Himself spotless to God. And if called here "eternal," it is in exact keeping with the character of this Epistle where the Christian Hebrews are taught to view all their blessings thus, in contrast with the temporal standing, privileges and hopes of the earthly people in its best estate, salvation, redemption, inheritance, and covenant.

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Copyists and Editors are divided between "our" and "your."

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Or, "worship."

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Some authorities add "and true"; but this appears to be imported from {vi 29570}{/vi}, where it is quite appropriate for souls once heathen, while those who had been Jews needed to think of God as "living."