Hebrews 9:23

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Thus it was necessary for the sketches of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves need better sacrifices than these.

Cross References

Luke 24:26

Was it not necessary that the Messiah should suffer these things and then enter into his glory?”

Luke 24:46

and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day

John 14:3

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also.

Acts 23:15

Now then, you and the council must notify the tribune to bring him down to you, on the pretext that you want to make a more thorough examination of his case. And we are ready to do away with him before he arrives.”

Colossians 2:17

These are only a shadow of what is to come, but the body belongs to Christ.

Hebrews 10:1

Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered year after year, make perfect those who approach.

Hebrews 10:4

For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Hebrews 8:5

They offer worship in a sanctuary that is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly one, just as Moses was warned when he was about to erect the tent. For, God said, “See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.”

Hebrews 9:14

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God!

Hebrews 9:24

For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made by human hands, a mere copy of the true one, but he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.

Revelation 5:9

They sing a new song: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to break its seals, for you were slaughtered and by your blood you ransomed for God saints from every tribe and language and people and nation;