IN THE BEGINNING...THE WORD
DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
THE TIME OF REFORMATION
The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
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.
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
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?
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
HEBREWS 9:8-17
Hebrews 9:10:
(ASV) being only (with meats and drinks and divers washings) carnal ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
(BBE) Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.
(CEV) These rules are merely about such things as eating and drinking and ceremonies for washing ourselves. And rules about physical things will last only until the time comes to change them for something better.
(DRB) And divers washings and justices of the flesh laid on them until the time of correction.
(ERV) These gifts and sacrifices are only about food and drink and special washings. They are only rules about the body. God gave them for his people to follow until the time of his new way.
(ESV) but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.
(GNB) since they have to do only with food, drink, and various purification ceremonies. These are all outward rules, which apply only until the time when God will establish the new order.
(GW) These gifts and sacrifices were meant to be food, drink, and items used in various purification ceremonies. These ceremonies were required for the body until God would establish a new way of doing things.
(ISV) since they deal only with food, drink, and various washings, which are required for the body until the time when things would be set right.
(JUB) but in foods and drinks and different washings and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of correction.
(KJV) Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
(KJV+) Which stood onlyG3440 inG1909 meatsG1033 andG2532 drinks,G4188 andG2532 diversG1313 washings,G909 andG2532 carnalG4561 ordinances,G1345 imposedG1945 on them untilG3360 the timeG2540 of reformation.G1357
(LEB) concerning instead only food and drink and different washings, regulations of outward things imposed until the time of setting things right.
(LITV) but only on foods and drinks, and various washings, and fleshly ordinances, until the time of setting things right has been imposed.
(MKJV) which stood only in meats and drinks, and different kinds of washings and fleshly ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
(YLT) only in victuals, and drinks, and different baptisms, and fleshly ordinances--till the time of reformation imposed upon them .
