Hebrews 9:23

So it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

Cross References (13)

  • 1 Peter 1:19–21 (23)

    but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.

  • Hebrews 10:4 (21)

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

  • Hebrews 9:14 (19)

    how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our co

  • Hebrews 9:9–12 (17)

    It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the co

  • Hebrews 9:24 (16)

    For Christ did not enter a man-made copy of the true sanctuary, but He entered heaven itself, now to appear on our behal

  • Hebrews 8:5 (10)

    The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to

  • Revelation 5:9 (5)

    And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blo

  • Luke 24:26 (3)

    Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then to enter His glory?”

  • Luke 24:46 (3)

    And He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

  • Colossians 2:17 (3)

    These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.

  • Hebrews 10:10–17 (2)

    And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

  • John 14:3 (1)

    And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be wher

  • Hebrews 10:1 (1)

    For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifi