For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
Parallel translations
- WEB For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
- BSB because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being 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 shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
- Heb 7:25Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
- Heb 10:1For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
- Heb 2:11For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
- Heb 13:12Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
- Rom 15:16That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
- Acts 20:32And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
- Eph 5:26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
- Heb 6:13–14For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
- Heb 7:19For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
- 1 Cor 1:2Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:
- Heb 9:10Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
- Jude 1:1Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
- Acts 26:13At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.
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