Hebrews 9:23

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

“ ‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without defect. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Yahweh.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth.

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people.

All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’ ”

See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.”

For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it.

Sing to him a new song. Play skillfully with a shout of joy!

He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.

Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and amen.

I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

“Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation,

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,

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.

Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices which can never take away sins,

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”

A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.

From among the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations, people will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.

You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.

But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.

For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

This was the workmanship of the lamp stand, beaten work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was beaten work. He made the lamp stand according to the pattern which Yahweh had shown Moses.

He also made ten basins, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them. The things that belonged to the burnt offering were washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.

Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”

He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

Therefore a dispute arose on the part of John’s disciples with some Jews about purification.

If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace,

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,

You shall set up the tabernacle according to the way that it was shown to you on the mountain.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,