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new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were <i>committed</i> under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/9-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>For where a covenant is, there must of necessity be the death of the one who made it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/9-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>For a covenant is valid <i>only</i> when men are dead, for it is never in force while the one who made it lives. <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/9-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>Therefore even the first <i>covenant</i> was not inaugurated without blood. <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/9-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/9-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>saying, T<font size="1">HIS IS THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT</font> <font size="1">WHICH</font> G<font size="1">OD COMMANDED YOU</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/9-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>And in the same way he sprinkled both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry with the blood. <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/9-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>And according to the Law, <i>one may</i> almost <i>say,</i> all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/9-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>Therefore it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/9-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>For Christ did not enter a holy place made with hands, a <i>mere</i> copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/9-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>nor was it that He would offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the holy place year by year with blood that is not his own. <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/9-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>Otherwise, He would have needed to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now once at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/9-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this <i>comes</i> judgment, <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/9-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without <i>reference to</i> sin, to those who eagerly await Him. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/hebrews/9.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a death having taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they that have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/hebrews/9.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And therefore he is the mediator of the new testament: that by means of his death, for the redemption of those trangressions, which were under the former testament, they that are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/hebrews/9.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And for this reason he is mediator of a new covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/hebrews/9.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a death having taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they that have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/hebrews/9.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they who are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/hebrews/9.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />And because of this He is the negotiator of a new Covenant, in order that, since a life has been given in atonement for the offences committed under the first Covenant, those who have been called may receive the eternal inheritance which has been promised to them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/hebrews/9.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/hebrews/9.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And because of this, of a new covenant he is mediator, that, death having come, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those called may receive the promise of the age-during inheritance,<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/discipline_and_other_sermons/sermon_v_good_friday.htm">Good Friday</a><br></span><span class="snippet">HEBREWS ix. 13, 14. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? The three collects for Good Friday are very grand and very remarkable. In the first we pray:- 'Almighty God, we beseech thee graciously to behold this thy family, for which our <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/discipline_and_other_sermons/sermon_v_good_friday.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Kingsley—</span><span class="citation2">Discipline and Other Sermons</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/luther/epistle_sermons_vol_ii/fifth_sunday_in_lent.htm">Fifth Sunday in Lent</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Text: Hebrews 9, 11-15. 11 But Christ having come a high priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, 12 nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling them that have been defiled, sanctify unto the cleanness of the flesh: <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/luther/epistle_sermons_vol_ii/fifth_sunday_in_lent.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Martin Luther—</span><span class="citation2">Epistle Sermons, Vol. II</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/beibitz/gloria_crucis/viii_the_sacrifice.htm">The Sacrifice</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?"--HEB. IX. 13, 14. No Christian doctrine is more commonly misunderstood than that of the sacrifice of Christ. This misunderstanding arises from ignorance as to the meaning of sacrifices in the ancient world. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/beibitz/gloria_crucis/viii_the_sacrifice.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">J. H. Beibitz—</span><span class="citation2">Gloria Crucis</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/burgon/inspiration_and_interpretation/vii_the_essay_which_brings.htm">The Essay which Brings up the Rear in this Very Guilty Volume is from The...</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The Essay which brings up the rear in this very guilty volume is from the pen of the "Rev. Benjamin Jowett, M.A., [Fellow and Tutor of Balliol College, and] Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford,"--"a gentleman whose high personal character and general respectability seem to give a weight to his words, which assuredly they do not carry of themselves [143] ." His performance is entitled "On the Interpretation of Scripture:" being, in reality, nothing else but a laborious denial of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/burgon/inspiration_and_interpretation/vii_the_essay_which_brings.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John William Burgon—</span><span class="citation2">Inspiration and Interpretation</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_3_1857/the_blood-shedding.htm">The Blood-Shedding</a><br></span><span class="snippet">There is another fool. The storm is raging, the ship is flying impetuous before the gale, the dark scud moves swiftly over head, the masts are creaking, the sails are rent to rags, and still the gathering tempest grows more fierce. Where is the captain? Is he busily engaged on the deck, is he manfully facing the danger, and skilfully suggesting means to avert it? No sir, he has retired to his cabin, and there with studious thoughts and crazy fancies he is speculating on the place where this storm <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_3_1857/the_blood-shedding.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 3: 1857</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_37_1891/between_the_two_appearings.htm">Between the Two Appearings</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Here, too, is the place for us to build a grand suspension bridge, by which, through faith, we ourselves may cross from this side to the other of the stormy river of time. The cross, at whose feet we stand, is the massive column which supports the structure on this side; and as we look forward to the glory, the second advent of our Lord is the solid support on the other side of the deep gulf of time. By faith we first look to Jesus, and then for Jesus; and herein is the life of our spirits. Christ <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_37_1891/between_the_two_appearings.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 37: 1891</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_58_1912/the_blood_of_the_testament.htm">The Blood of the Testament</a><br></span><span class="snippet">BLOOD IS ALWAYS a terrible thing. It makes a sensitive mind shudder even to pronounce the word; but, to look upon the thing itself causes a thrill of horror. Although by familiarity men shake this off, for the seeing of the eye and the hearing of the ear can harden the heart, the instinct of a little child may teach you what is natural to us in referer to blood. How it will worry if its finger bleeds ever so little, shocked as the sight, actually there be no smart. I envy not the man whose pity would <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_58_1912/the_blood_of_the_testament.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 58: 1912</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_60_1914/an_unalterable_law.htm">An Unalterable Law</a><br></span><span class="snippet">EVERYWHERE under the old figurative dispensation, blood was sure to greet your eyes. It was the one most prominent thing under the Jewish economy, scarcely a ceremony was observed without it. You could not enter into any part of the tabernacle, but you saw traces of the blood-sprinkling. Sometimes there were bowls of blood cast at the foot of the altar. The place looked so like a shambles, that to visit it must have been far from attractive to the natural taste, and to delight in it, a man had need <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_60_1914/an_unalterable_law.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 60: 1914</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/torrey/the_person_and_work_of_the_holy_spirit/chapter_ii_the_deity_of.htm">The Deity of the Holy Spirit. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">In the preceding chapter we have seen clearly that the Holy Spirit is a Person. But what sort of a Person is He? Is He a finite person or an infinite person? Is He God? This question also is plainly answered in the Bible. There are in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments five distinct and decisive lines of proof of the Deity of the Holy Spirit. I. Each of the four distinctively Divine attributes is ascribed to the Holy Spirit. What are the distinctively Divine attributes? Eternity, omnipresence, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/torrey/the_person_and_work_of_the_holy_spirit/chapter_ii_the_deity_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">R. A. Torrey—</span><span class="citation2">The Person and Work of The Holy Spirit</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/the_two_covenants/chapter_xii_the_book_of.htm">The Book of the Covenant</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"And Moses took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do and be obedient. And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words."-EX. xxiv. 7, 8; comp. HEB. ix. 18-20. HERE is a new aspect in which to regard God's blessed Book. Before Moses sprinkled the blood, he read the Book of the Covenant, and obtained the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/the_two_covenants/chapter_xii_the_book_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Andrew Murray—</span><span class="citation2">The Two Covenants</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kuyper/the_work_of_the_holy_spirit/xx_the_holy_spirit_in.htm">The Holy Spirit in the Mediator. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God."--Heb. ix. 14. The work of the Holy Spirit in the Person of Christ is not exhausted in the Incarnation, but appears conspicuously in the work of the Mediator. We consider this work in the development of His human nature; in the consecration to His office; in His humiliation unto death; in His resurrection, exaltation, and return in glory. First--The work of the Holy Spirit in the development of the human nature in Jesus. We have <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kuyper/the_work_of_the_holy_spirit/xx_the_holy_spirit_in.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Abraham Kuyper—</span><span class="citation2">The Work of the Holy Spirit</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/hebrews/9-15.htm">Hebrews 9:15 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/hebrews/9-15.htm">Hebrews 9:15 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/hebrews/9-15.htm">Hebrews 9:15 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/hebrews/9-15.htm">Hebrews 9:15 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/hebrews/9-15.htm">Hebrews 9:15 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/hebrews/9-15.htm">Hebrews 9:15 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/hebrews/9-15.htm">Hebrews 9:15 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../hebrews/9-14.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Hebrews 9:14"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Hebrews 9:14" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../hebrews/9-16.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Hebrews 9:16"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Hebrews 9:16" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/hebrews/9-15.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>