15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Atonement
• Blood
• High Priesthood of Christ

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Pet 1:22 — Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
• 2Chr 30:19 — That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.
• 2Chr 35:6 — So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
• Acts 11:9 — But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
• Acts 15:9 — And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
• Exod 12:5 — Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
• Ezek 36:25 — Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
• Ezek 37:23 — Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein th
• Heb 9:12 — 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.
• Heb 10:2 — For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
• 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 10:29 — Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thi
• Isa 6:7 — And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
• Isa 52:15 — So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.
• John 3:25 — Then there arose a question between some of John’s disciples and the Jews about purifying.
• John 11:55 — And the Jews’ passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.
• John 17:19 — And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
• John 19:34 — But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
• Lev 14:7 — And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.
• Lev 16:14 — And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.
• Lev 16:14 — And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.
• Num 19:2 — This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never c
• Num 19:9 — And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of s
• Num 19:21 — And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.
• Ps 51:2 — Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
• Ps 51:7 — Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
• Ps 51:7 — Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
• Zech 13:1 — In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.