Temple & Tabernacle Verses
The sacred design, offerings, feasts, and rituals that reveal the holiness of God and His dwelling among men.
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. {yet...: or, is yet spoken of}
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as {in} a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of {our} lips giving thanks to his name. {giving...: Gr. confessing to}
But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. {are: or, be ye}