Hebrews 11:40 Cross References - ACV

⁴⁰ God having foreseen something superior concerning us, so that without us they would not be made fully perfect.

²⁵ whom God set forth an expiatory sacrifice through faith in his blood, for proof of his justice, because of the passing over of the sins that have formerly occurred ²⁶ (in the forbearance of God), for proof of his justice at the present time, for him to be righteous, and who makes the man from Jesus' faith righteous.

⁹ And having been fully perfected, he became the source of eternal salvation to all those who obey him,

¹⁹ (for the law made nothing fully perfect), and an introduction of a better hope, through which we approach God.

²² By so much, Jesus has become the surety of a better covenant.

⁶ But now he has obtained a superior ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a superior covenant, which has been enacted upon superior promises.

⁸ this signifying from the Holy Spirit, the way into the holy things is not yet to be made known while the first tabernacle still remains. ⁹ Which is a figure for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices are offered that are not able to make the man officiating fully perfect in respect to conscience, ¹⁰ only in foods and drinks and various washings: carnal ordinances imposed until a time of reformation. ¹¹ But Christ, having arrived a high priest of the good things that are coming, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation, ¹² and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, he entered in once into the Holy things, having found eternal redemption. ¹³ For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling those who were defiled, sanctifies for the purification of the flesh, ¹⁴ how much more the blood of Christ, who, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself unblemished to God, will cleanse your conscience from dead works in order to serve a living God? ¹⁵ And because of this he is mediator of a new covenant, so that a death having occurred for the redemption of the transgressions against the first covenant, those who are called might take the promise of the eternal inheritance.

²³ Indeed therefore, a necessity was for the models of the things in the heavens themselves to be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things with better sacrifices than these.

¹¹ And indeed every priest stands daily serving and offering the same sacrifices often, which can never take away sins. ¹² But this man, having offered one sacrifice on behalf of sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, ¹³ waiting henceforth until his enemies are placed a footstool of his feet. ¹⁴ For by one offering he has fully perfected forever those being sanctified.

²³ to a festal gathering and assembly of firstborn sons who were enrolled in the heavens, and to God, a Judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men who were made fully perfect, ²⁴ and to Jesus a mediator of a new covenant, and to blood of sprinkling that speaks better than Abel.

¹¹ And a white robe was given to them each, and it was said to them that they should still rest a time, until also their fellow bondmen, and their brothers, and those going to be killed as they too, would be fulfilled.