Hebrews 7:19
For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
KJV
οὐδὲν γὰρ ἐτελείωσεν ὁ νόμος, ἐπεισαγωγὴ δὲ κρείττονος ἐλπίδος, δι’ ἧς ἐγγίζομεν τῷ θεῷ.
Greek NT
nihil enim ad perfectum adduxit lex : introductio vero melioris spei, per quam proximamus ad Deum.
Vulgate
(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw nigh unto God.
ASV
For the law brought nothing to perfection: but a bringing in of a better hope, by which we draw nigh to God.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
διά
dia
preposition · 633×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
κρείττων
kreitton
adjective · 13×
νόμος
nomos
noun · 196×
οὐδείς
oudeis
adjective · 235×
τελειόω
teleioo
verb · 23×
ἐγγίζω
eggizo
verb · 42×
ἐλπίς
elpis
noun · 53×
ἐπεισαγωγή
epeisagoge
noun · 1×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
Historic Christian voices
7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Homilies on the Epistle to the Hebrews · 3 passages
1. Paul mixes the lowly things with the lofty, ever imitating his Master, so that the lowly become the path to the lofty, and through the former we are led to the latter, and when we are amid the great things we learn that these [lowly ones] were a condescension. This accordingly he does here also. After declaring that He offered up Himself, and showing Him to be a High Priest,…
1. He has shown from the Priest, from the Priesthood, from the Covenant, that that [dispensation] was to have an end. From this point he shows it from the fashion of the tabernacle itself. How? This, he says, [was] the Holy and the Holy of Holies. The holy place then is a symbol of the former period (for there all things are done by means of sacrifices); but the Holy of Holies …
1. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He has consecrated for us. Having shown the difference of the High Priest, and of the sacrifices, and of the tabernacle, and of the Covenant, and of the promise, and that the difference is great, since those are temporal, but these eternal, those near to vanish…
59. (7). And the Apostle's own reason for saying, 'so much better than the Angels,' was not any wish in the first instance to compare the essence of the Word to things originate (for He cannot be compared, rather they are incommeasurable), but regarding the Word's visitation in the flesh, and the Economy which He then sustained, he wished to show that He was not like those who …
Cross-references
- Acts 13:39 — And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
- Acts 13:39 — And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
- Col 1:5 — For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
- Eph 2:18 — For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
- Heb 4:16 — Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
- Heb 4:16 — Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
- Heb 6:18 — That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
- Heb 7:18 — For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
- Heb 7:25 — Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
- Heb 9:9 — 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;
- Heb 10:1 — For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
- Heb 10:14 — For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
- Heb 10:22 — Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
- Heb 11:6 — But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
- Heb 11:40 — God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
- Heb 11:40 — God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
- Heb 12:2 — Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
- Jas 4:8 — Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
- Lev 16:26 — And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp.
- Rom 4:14 — For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
- Rom 5:2 — By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
- Rom 8:3 — For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: