Bible Strands
Hebrews 9:25
Nor 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.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The author addresses Jewish Christians tempted to abandon the new covenant, contrasting Christ’s ascension with the old covenant priestly cycle.
The words — πολλάκις (pollakis) means repeatedly, and προσφέρῃ (prospherē) means He may offer, forming a direct grammatical negation of ongoing sacrifice.
The thread — The text contrasts Christ’s entry with the annual high priestly rite in Hebrews 9:7 and Hebrews 9:12, while Hebrews 9:26 and Hebrews 9:14 establish the once-for-all scope of His offering.
Why it lands — The passage states that Christ did not enter heaven to repeat His offering, which requires the reader to abandon any expectation of repeated atonement or ritual mediation.
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The Greek words
King James Version
Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
Cross-references
- Hebrews 9:12 He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.
- Hebrews 9:7 But only the high priest entered the second room, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.
- Hebrews 9:14 how 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!
- Hebrews 9:26 Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
- Hebrews 10:19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,
- Exodus 30:10 Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on the horns of the altar. Throughout your generations he shall make atonement on it annually with the blood of the sin offering of atonement. The altar is most holy to the LORD.”
- Leviticus 16:2 And the LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron not to enter freely into the Most Holy Place behind the veil in front of the mercy seat on the ark, or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.
- Hebrews 10:10 And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.