Hebrews 9 · Verse 25

Hebrews 9:25

Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
Hebrews 9:25, King James Version

Hebrews 9:25 in other translations

BSBNor did He enter heaven to offer Himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.
WEBnor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,
ASVnor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place year by year with blood not his own;
YLTnor that he may many times offer himself, even as the chief priest doth enter into the holy places every year with blood of others;
DARBYnor in order that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy places every year with blood not his own;
BBEAnd he did not have to make an offering of himself again and again, as the high priest goes into the holy place every year with blood which is not his;
WebsterNor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;

What does Hebrews 9:25 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
25. As in He 9:24, Paul said, it was not into the typical, but the true sanctuary, that Christ is entered; so now he says, that His sacrifice needs not, as the Levitical sacrifices did, to be repeated. Construe, "Nor yet did He enter for this purpose that He may offer Himself often," that is, "present Himself in the presence of God, as the high priest does (Paul uses the present tense, as the legal service was then existing), year by year, on the day of atonement, entering the Holy of Holies. with--literally, "in." blood of others--not his own, as Christ did.

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Barnes' Notes
Verse 25. Nor yet that he should offer himself often. The Jewish high priest entered the most holy place with blood once every year. In this respect the offering made by Christ, and the work which he performed, differed from that of the Jewish high priest. It was not needful that he should enter the holy place but once. Having entered there, he permanently remains there.

With the blood of others. That is, with the blood of calves and goats. This is a second point in which the work of Christ differs from that of the Jewish high priest. Christ entered there with his own blood. Heb 9:12.

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often - The sacrifice of Christ is not like that of the Jewish high priest; his must be offered every year, Christ has offered himself once for all: and this sacrificial act has ever the same efficacy, his crucified body being still a powerful and infinitely meritorious sacrifice before the throne.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Hebrews 9:23-28

It is evident that the sacrifices of Christ are infinitely better than those of the law, which could neither procure pardon for sin, nor impart power against it. Sin would still have been upon us, and have had dominion over us; but Jesus Christ, by one sacrifice, has destroyed the works of the devil, that believers may be made righteous, holy, and happy. As no wisdom, learning, virtue, wealth, or power, can keep one…

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Hebrews 9:25 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

οὐδ᾽oud᾽norG3761
ἵναinathatG2443
πολλάκιςpollakisrepeatedlyG4178
προσφέρῃprospherēHe may offerG4374
ἑαυτόν,he'autonHimself,G1438
ὥσπερhōsperjust asG5618
ὁhotheG3588
ἀρχιερεὺςarchiereushigh priestG749
εἰσέρχεταιeiserchetaientersG1525
εἰςeisintoG1519
τὰtatheG3588
ἅγιαhagiaHoly [Places]G39
κατ᾽kat᾽everyG2596
ἐνιαυτὸνeniautonyearG1763
ἐνenwithG1722
αἵματιaimati[the] bloodG129
ἀλλοτρίῳ·allotriōof another;G245

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Hebrews 9:25

  • Hebrews 9:12

    Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

  • Hebrews 9:14

    How 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?

  • Hebrews 9:7

    But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:

  • Hebrews 9:26

    For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

  • Hebrews 10:19

    Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,

  • Exodus 30:10

    And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the Lord.

  • Hebrews 10:10

    By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

  • Leviticus 16:2-34

    And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat. Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering. He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on. And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering. …

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offer.
7,14,26; 10:10
as.
12; Ex 30:10; Le 16:2-34

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Context

  • Hebrews 9:24

    For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

  • Hebrews 9:25

    Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;

  • Hebrews 9:26

    For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

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Hebrews 9:25 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y no para ofrecerse muchas veces á sí mismo, como entra el pontífice en el santuario cada año con sangre ajena;
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
– ni, non plus, afin de s’offrir lui-même plusieurs fois, ainsi que le souverain sacrificateur entre dans les lieux saints chaque année avec un sang autre que le sien
German
Elberfelder 1871
auch nicht, auf daß er sich selbst oftmals opferte, wie der Hohepriester alljährlich in das Heiligtum hineingeht mit fremdem Blut;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
neque ut sæpe offerat semetipsum, quemadmodum pontifex intrat in Sancta per singulos annos in sanguine alieno: