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Heb. 9:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could notf make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;*g

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Heb. 10:1,11• ¹For the law, having a shadow of the coming good things, not the image itself of the things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually yearly, perfect those who approach.
¹¹And every priest stands daily ministering, and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. (Heb. 10:1,11)

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Psa. 40:6‑7• ⁶Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire: ears hast thou prepared me. Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not demanded;
⁷Then said I, Behold, I come, in the volume of the book it is written of me-- (Psa. 40:6‑7)

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Gal. 3:21• ²¹Is then the law against the promises of God? Far be the thought. For if a law had been given able to quicken, then indeed righteousness were on the principle of law; (Gal. 3:21)

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Psa. 51:16‑19• ¹⁶For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering.
¹⁷The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
¹⁸Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build the walls of Jerusalem.
¹⁹Then shalt thou have sacrifices of righteousness, burnt-offering, and whole burnt-offering; then shall they offer up bullocks upon thine altar. (Psa. 51:16‑19)

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a figure.

Heb. 9:24• ²⁴For the Christ is not entered into holy places made with hand, figures of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us: (Heb. 9:24)

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Heb. 11:19• ¹⁹counting that God was able to raise him even from among the dead, whence also he received him in a figure. (Heb. 11:19)

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Rom. 5:14• ¹⁴but death reigned from Adam until Moses, even upon those who had not sinned in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him to come. (Rom. 5:14)

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1 Peter 3:21• ²¹which figure also now saves you, even baptism, not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the demand as before God of a good conscience, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, (1 Peter 3:21)

the time.

Heb. 7:11• ¹¹If indeed then perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, for the people had their law given to them in connexion with *it*, what need was there still that a different priest should arise according to the order of Melchisedec, and not be named after the order of Aaron? (Heb. 7:11)

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Heb. 11:39‑40• ³⁹And these all, having obtained witness through faith, did not receive the promise,
⁴⁰God having foreseen some better thing for us, that they should not be made perfect without us. (Heb. 11:39‑40)

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1 Peter 1:11‑12• ¹¹searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ which was in them pointed out, testifying before of the sufferings which belonged to Christ, and the glories after these.
¹²To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves but to you they ministered those things, which have now been announced to you by those who have declared to you the glad tidings by the Holy Spirit, sent from heaven, which angels desire to look into. (1 Peter 1:11‑12)

gifts.

Heb. 5:1• ¹For every high priest taken from amongst men is established for men in things relating to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins; (Heb. 5:1)

that could.

Heb. 9:13‑14• ¹³For if the blood of goats and bulls, and a heifer's ashes sprinkling the defiled, sanctifies for the purity of the flesh,
¹⁴how 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 worship the living God? (Heb. 9:13‑14)

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Heb. 7:18‑19• ¹⁸For there is a setting aside of the commandment going before for its weakness and unprofitableness,
¹⁹(for the law perfected nothing,) and the introduction of a better hope by which we draw nigh to God. (Heb. 7:18‑19)

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Heb. 10:1‑4,11• ¹For the law, having a shadow of the coming good things, not the image itself of the things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually yearly, perfect those who approach.
²Since, would they not indeed have ceased being offered, on account of the worshippers once purged having no longer any conscience of sins?
³But in these there is a calling to mind of sins yearly.
⁴For blood of bulls and goats is incapable of taking away sins.
¹¹And every priest stands daily ministering, and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. (Heb. 10:1‑4,11)

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Psa. 40:6‑7• ⁶Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire: ears hast thou prepared me. Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not demanded;
⁷Then said I, Behold, I come, in the volume of the book it is written of me-- (Psa. 40:6‑7)

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Gal. 3:21• ²¹Is then the law against the promises of God? Far be the thought. For if a law had been given able to quicken, then indeed righteousness were on the principle of law; (Gal. 3:21)

as pertaining.

Psa. 51:16‑19• ¹⁶For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering.
¹⁷The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
¹⁸Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build the walls of Jerusalem.
¹⁹Then shalt thou have sacrifices of righteousness, burnt-offering, and whole burnt-offering; then shall they offer up bullocks upon thine altar. (Psa. 51:16‑19)

• It is well to remember that the “perfect” or “purged” conscience, of which the apostle speaks in chapters 9 and 10, is very different to that which is spoken of elsewhere as “a good conscience.” The purged conscience is one that, being “once purged,” has no more conscience of sins (chapter 10:2). It supposes a conscience that has been exercised as to its sins, but has had that exercise met by learning that the believer is cleansed from all sins by the precious blood of Christ and will never come under judgment. A good conscience is a conscience void of offense in the practical ways and walk. (“The Signification of the Tabernacle and Its Sacrifices: Hebrews 9:8-10” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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the whichg is an image for the present time, according to whichh both gifts and sacrifices, unable to perfect as to conscience him that worshippedi, are offered,

JND Translation Notes

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g

"which is such as is."

h

The present time (ver. 9) is opposed to the time of setting things right (ver. 10). The tabernacle is in view in Hebrews, not the temple; but the fact that offerings were then still made is recognized in what follows. He could not call it "the present age" (a Jewish term for the age preceding the Messiah), because Messiah was come and he had been crucified; but the carnal ordinances were still offered, so that for the Hebrews it was not "the age to come." The "image" could be only for a present time on earth. The patterns were in the heavens.

i

Latreuo. "Worship" is perhaps too strong, but "service" is equivocal. It is to approach a god with prayers, or in offering up a religious service. see ver. 6.

W. Kelly Translation

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the which [isa] a parableb for the time presentc, according to whichd are offered both gifts and sacrifices, unable as to conscience to perfect the worshippere,

WK Translation Notes

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a

See note to {vi 30112}{/vi}.

b

For "parable" some render "figure," and so in 11:19. This is rather a question of linguistic taste than of substantial exactitude.

c

It is agreed that "now" present is needless, as "then" in KJV is erroneous.

d

T. R. gives "hon," meaning "in which" time; but the critics read hēn "to which," as given in this version.

e

Or, "him that serveth."