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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Hebrews 9 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/hebrews/9.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/hebrews/9-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Hebrews 9</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../hebrews/8.htm" title="Hebrews 8">◄</a> Hebrews 9 <a href="../hebrews/10.htm" title="Hebrews 10">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/hebrews/9.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Old Rules about Worship</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>That first covenant between God and Israel had regulations for worship and a place of worship here on earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>There were two rooms in that Tabernacle.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> In the first room were a lampstand, a table, and sacred loaves of bread on the table. This room was called the Holy Place. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then there was a curtain, and behind the curtain was the second room<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> called the Most Holy Place. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>In that room were a gold incense altar and a wooden chest called the Ark of the Covenant, which was covered with gold on all sides. Inside the Ark were a gold jar containing manna, Aaron’s staff that sprouted leaves, and the stone tablets of the covenant. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Above the Ark were the cherubim of divine glory, whose wings stretched out over the Ark’s cover, the place of atonement. But we cannot explain these things in detail now.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>When these things were all in place, the priests regularly entered the first room<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> as they performed their religious duties. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But only the high priest ever entered the Most Holy Place, and only once a year. And he always offered blood for his own sins and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>By these regulations the Holy Spirit revealed that the entrance to the Most Holy Place was not freely open as long as the Tabernacle<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> and the system it represented were still in use.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>This is an illustration pointing to the present time. For the gifts and sacrifices that the priests offer are not able to cleanse the consciences of the people who bring them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For that old system deals only with food and drink and various cleansing ceremonies—physical regulations that were in effect only until a better system could be established.</p><p class="hdg">Christ Is the Perfect Sacrifice</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So Christ has now become the High Priest over all the good things that have come.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a> He has entered that greater, more perfect Tabernacle in heaven, which was not made by human hands and is not part of this created world. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>With his own blood—not the blood of goats and calves—he entered the Most Holy Place once for all time and secured our redemption forever.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Under the old system, the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer could cleanse people’s bodies from ceremonial impurity. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Just think how much more the blood of Christ will purify our consciences from sinful deeds<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a> so that we can worship the living God. For by the power of the eternal Spirit, Christ offered himself to God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>That is why he is the one who mediates a new covenant between God and people, so that all who are called can receive the eternal inheritance God has promised them. For Christ died to set them free from the penalty of the sins they had committed under that first covenant.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Now when someone leaves a will,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">g</span></a> it is necessary to prove that the person who made it is dead.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">h</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The will goes into effect only after the person’s death. While the person who made it is still alive, the will cannot be put into effect.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>That is why even the first covenant was put into effect with the blood of an animal. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For after Moses had read each of God’s commandments to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">i</span></a> along with water, and sprinkled both the book of God’s law and all the people, using hyssop branches and scarlet wool. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then he said, “This blood confirms the covenant God has made with you.”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">j</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And in the same way, he sprinkled blood on the Tabernacle and on everything used for worship. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>In fact, according to the law of Moses, nearly everything was purified with blood. For without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>That is why the Tabernacle and everything in it, which were copies of things in heaven, had to be purified by the blood of animals. But the real things in heaven had to be purified with far better sacrifices than the blood of animals.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For Christ did not enter into a holy place made with human hands, which was only a copy of the true one in heaven. He entered into heaven itself to appear now before God on our behalf. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And he did not enter heaven to offer himself again and again, like the high priest here on earth who enters the Most Holy Place year after year with the blood of an animal. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>If that had been necessary, Christ would have had to die again and again, ever since the world began. But now, once for all time, he has appeared at the end of the age<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">k</span></a> to remove sin by his own death as a sacrifice.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And just as each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>so also Christ was offered once for all time as a sacrifice to take away the sins of many people. He will come again, not to deal with our sins, but to bring salvation to all who are eagerly waiting for him.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">tent;</span><span class="ft"> also in 9:11, 21.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:3 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">second tent.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:6 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">first tent.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">the first room;</span><span class="ft"> Greek reads </span><span class="it">the first tent.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:11 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts read </span><span class="it">that are about to come.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:14 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">from dead works.</span><br><span class="fn">g</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:16a </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">covenant;</span><span class="ft"> also in 9:17.</span><br><span class="fn">h</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:16b </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">Now when someone makes a covenant, it is necessary to ratify it with the death of a sacrifice.</span><br><span class="fn">i</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:19 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts do not include </span><span class="it">and goats.</span><br><span class="fn">j</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:20 </span><span class="ft">Exod 24:8.</span><br><span class="fn">k</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">9:26 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">the ages.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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