because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.
Parallel translations
- WEB For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
- KJV For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
- NKJV For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
- NASB For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.
- NLT For by that one offering he forever made perfect those who are being made holy.
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Quick answer
By a single offering Christ has perfected forever those being sanctified. His finished work secures their complete standing before God.
Overview
This rich verse holds together the completed and ongoing aspects of salvation: by one offering Christ has 'perfected forever' his people, even as they are 'being sanctified'. Their perfect standing before God is settled by the cross, while the Spirit progressively makes them holy in practice. The believer's security rests on Christ's finished work.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- Heb 9:14how 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!
- Heb 7:25Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.
- Heb 10:1For 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.
- Heb 2:11For both the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers.
- Heb 13:12And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood.
- Rom 15:16to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
- Acts 20:32And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.
- Eph 5:26to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
- Heb 6:13–14When God made His promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself,
- Heb 7:19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.
- 1 Cor 1:2To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:
- Heb 9:10They consist only in food and drink and special washings—external regulations imposed until the time of reform.
- Jude 1:1Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, To those who are called, loved by God the Father, and kept in Jesus Christ:
- Acts 26:13About noon, O king, as I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and my companions.
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