For by that one offering he forever made perfect those who are being made holy.
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.
- BSB because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.
- ESV For by a single offering he has perfected 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.
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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 without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
- Heb 7:25Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.
- Heb 10:1For 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.
- Heb 2:11For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,
- Heb 13:12Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.
- Rom 15:16that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
- Acts 20:32Now, brothers, I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
- Eph 5:26that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
- Heb 6:13–14For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,
- Heb 7:19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
- 1 Cor 1:2to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:
- Heb 9:10being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
- Jude 1:1Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
- Acts 26:13at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.
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