Cross references

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.

Hebrews 9:23 BSB

Hebrews 9:23 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 7 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 1 Peter 1:19–21 (25 votes) and Hebrews 10:4 (24 votes). 47 other verses point back to it. It links with 19 other books, from Exodus 24 to Revelation 5.

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Which verses does Hebrews 9:23 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot. He was known before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake. …

  2. Hebrews 10:424 votes

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

  3. Hebrews 9:1421 votes

    how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!

  4. It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper. They consist only in food and drink and special washings—external regulations imposed until the time of reform. …

  5. Hebrews 9:2418 votes

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

  6. Hebrews 8:510 votes

    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 build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”

  7. And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

  8. Luke 24:263 votes

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

  9. Luke 24:463 votes

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

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

  11. And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. …

  12. John 14:31 vote
  13. For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.

Which verses point to Hebrews 9:23?

The 10 strongest of 47.