Hebrews 10:15-18 And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying, 16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws upon their heart, and on their mind I will write them,” He then says, 17 “And their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” 18 Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offeri...

Hebrews 10:11-14 Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; 12 but [Jesus], having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God, 13 waiting from that time onward until His enemies be made a footstool for His feet. 14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctifi...

Hebrews 10:5-10 Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says, “Sacrifice and offering You have not desired, but a body You have prepared for Me; 6 in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have taken no pleasure. 7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of Me) to do Your will, O God.’ ” 8 After saying above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burn...

Hebrews 10:1-4 For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near. 2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins? 3 But in those sacri...

Hebrews 9:27-28 And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment, 28 so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.            In Hebrews 9:26, Jesus is said to have been “manifested” (Gr. phaneroō) at the end of the ages—a past tense time when He w...

Hebrews 9:23-28 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. 24 For Christ did not enter a holy place made with hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; 25 nor was it that He would offer Himself often, as the high...

Hebrews 9:15-22 For where a covenant is, there must of necessity be the death of the one who made it. 17 For a covenant is valid only when men are dead, for it is never in force while the one who made it lives. 18 Therefore even the first covenant was not inaugurated without blood. 19 For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Law, he took the blood of t...

Hebrews 9:15 That is why [Jesus] 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 (New Living Translation).“This is why” is a reference to Hebrews 9:11-14. The author claimed that Jesus, contra...

Hebrews 9:11-14 But when Christ appeared a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands… not of this creation; 12 and not through the blood of goats and calves. But through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a hei...

Hebrews 9:8-10 The Holy Spirit is signifying this, that the way into the holy place has not yet been disclosed while the outer tabernacle is still standing, 9 which is a symbol for the present time. Accordingly both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make the worshiper perfect in conscience, 10 since they relate only to food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body impos...

Hebrews 9:6-7 When these things were all in place, the priests regularly entered the first room as they performed their religious duties. 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 (NLT).The priests in Israel worked ceaselessly offering blood sacrifices on the a...

Hebrews 9:1, 6-7 Now even the first covenant had regulations of divine worship and the earthly sanctuary…     6 Now when these things have been so prepared, the priests are continually entering the outer tabernacle performing the divine worship, 7 but into the second, only the high priest enters once a year, not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins of the people commi...

Hebrews 9:1-5 Now even the first covenant had regulations of divine worship and the earthly sanctuary. 2 For there was a tabernacle prepared, the outer one, in which were the lampstand and the table and the sacred bread; this is called the holy place. 3 Behind the second veil there was a tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies, 4 having a golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant c...

Genesis 6:4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.Now if Nephilim is translated “giants,” the fact that they lived “afterwards,” that is after the Flood, can indeed be accounted for in the OT itself. First, there later existed th...

Genesis 6:22 Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.            What exactly did Noah do that God commanded? Plenty. In a world full of wickedness, Noah preached righteousness (2 Pet. 2:5). That in itself is something, especially in light of the fact that after 120 years of preaching repentance, apparently no one believed. For when Noah entered the ark, it was the sa...