Hebrews Chapter 9 verse 22 Holy Bible
And according to the law, I may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
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And by the law almost all things are made clean with blood, and without blood there is no forgiveness.
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and almost all things are purified with blood according to the law, and without blood-shedding there is no remission.
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And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
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According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
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and with blood almost all things are purified according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding forgiveness doth not come.
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Hebrews 9 : 22 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 22. - And almost (rather, eve may almost say that) all things are according to the Law purified with blood; and without shedding of blood there is no remission. The essentiality of blood, which is "the life of all flesh," for atonement and consequent remission, is emphatically asserted in Leviticus 17:11, which expresses the principle of the whole sacrificial ritual. The idea seems to be that the life of man is forfeit to Divine justice (cf. Genesis 2:17), and so blood, representing life, must be offered instead of his life for atonement.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(22) And almost all things.--The meaning of the word "almost," as it stands in the Greek, is rather, "One may almost lay down the rule," "One may almost say." What follows, in both parts of the verse, is a general saying, modified by these introductory words. And one may almost say--according to the Law, all things are cleansed in blood, and apart from the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. To the first rule an exception is found in the various purifications by water or by fire (see Numbers 31:22-24); to the second in the remarkable law of Leviticus 5:11-13. The expression "in blood" is used because sprinkling with the blood of the slain victim was in figure a surrounding with, or inclusion within, the purifying element. On "cleansed" (Hebrews 1:3) the best comment is found in Leviticus 16:19; Leviticus 16:30; on "forgiveness," in the words which in Leviticus 4 are repeatedly (Leviticus 4:20; Leviticus 4:26; Leviticus 4:31; Leviticus 4:35) used of the effect of the sin offering, "it shall be forgiven him." The second clause of the verse is founded on Leviticus 17:11. By "shedding of blood" we must probably understand the slaying of the animal, rather than the pouring out of the blood by the altar (Leviticus 4:34, et al.) With these words compare Luke 22:20. . . .
