11 translations · Greek
Hebrews 9:14
how 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?
Hebrews 9:14 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- how 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?
- KJV King James Version
- 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?
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- 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!
- ASV American Standard Version
- how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- how much more will the blood of the Christ (who through the perpetual Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
- FBV Free Bible Version
- how much more does the blood of Christ—who offered himself in his sinless life to God through the eternal Spirit—clean your consciences from your past sinful lives so you can serve the living God?
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
- DBY Darby Translation
- how much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works to worship [the] living God?
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- how 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?
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God?
The Greek words
Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| πόσῳ | posō | how much | G4214 πόσος how much/many? |
| μᾶλλον | mallon | more | G3123 μᾶλλον more |
| τὸ | to | {will} the | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| αἷμα | haima | blood | G129 αἷμα blood |
| τοῦ | tou | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| Χριστοῦ | Christou | of Christ | G5547 Χριστός Christ |
| ὃς | hos | who | G3739 ὅς which |
| διὰ | dia | through | G1223 διά through/because of |
| Πνεύματος | Pneumatos | Spirit | G4151 πνεῦμα spirit/breath: spirit |
| αἰωνίου | aiōniou | [the] eternal | G166 αἰώνιος eternal |
| ἑαυτὸν | heauton | Himself | G1438 ἑαυτοῦ themself |
| προσήνεγκεν | prosēnenken | offered | G4374 προσφέρω to bring to |
| ἄμωμον | amōmon | unblemished | G299 ἄμωμος blameless |
| τῷ | tō | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| Θεῷ | Theō | to God | G2316 θεός God |
| καθαριεῖ | kathariei | purify | G2511 καθαρίζω to clean |
| τὴν | tēn | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| συνείδησιν | syneidēsin | consciences | G4893 συνείδησις conscience |
| ἡμῶν | hēmōn | our | G1473 ἐγώ I/we |
| ἀπὸ | apo | from | G575 ἀπό away from |
| νεκρῶν | nekrōn | of death | G3498 νεκρός dead |
| ἔργων | ergōn | works | G2041 ἔργον work |
| εἰς | eis | so that | G1519 εἰς toward |
| τὸ | to | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| λατρεύειν | latreuein | we may serve | G3000 λατρεύω to minister |
| Θεῷ | Theō | God | G2316 θεός God |
| ζῶντι | zōnti | [the] living | G2198 ζάω to live |
Related verses
- Hebrews 10:22
let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
- 1 Peter 1:19
but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ;
- 1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
- Hebrews 9:12
nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.
- 1 Peter 2:24
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
- 1 Peter 3:18
Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
- Titus 2:14
who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
- Hebrews 1:3
His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
- Hebrews 7:27
who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.
- 1 Peter 4:2
that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
12 nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.
13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh:
14 how 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?
15 For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
16 For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it.
Read all of Hebrews 9 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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