Hebrews 10
10
1The law is only an unclear picture of the good things coming in the future; it is not the real thing. The people under the law offer the same sacrifices every year, but these sacrifices can never make perfect those who come near to worship God. 2If the law could make them perfect, the sacrifices would have already stopped. The worshipers would be made clean, and they would no longer have a sense of sin. 3But these sacrifices remind them of their sins every year, 4because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5So when Christ came into the world, he said:
“You do not want sacrifices and offerings,
but you have prepared a body for me.
6You do not ask for burnt offerings
and offerings to take away sins.
7Then I said, ‘Look, I have come.
It is written about me in the book.
God, I have come to do what you want.’ ”#Psalm 40:6–8
8In this Scripture he first said, “You do not want sacrifices and offerings. You do not ask for burnt offerings and offerings to take away sins.” (These are all sacrifices that the law commands.) 9Then he said, “Look, I have come to do what you want.” God ends the first system of sacrifices so he can set up the new system. 10And because of this, we are made holy through the sacrifice Christ made in his body once and for all time.
11Every day the priests stand and do their religious service, often offering the same sacrifices. Those sacrifices can never take away sins. 12But after Christ offered one sacrifice for sins, forever, he sat down at the right side of God. 13And now Christ waits there for his enemies to be put under his power. 14With one sacrifice he made perfect forever those who are being made holy.
15The Holy Spirit also tells us about this. First he says:
16“This is the agreement I will make
with them at that time, says the Lord.
I will put my teachings in their hearts
and write them on their minds.”#Jeremiah 31:33
17Then he says:
“Their sins and the evil things they do—
I will not remember anymore.”#Jeremiah 31:34
18Now when these have been forgiven, there is no more need for a sacrifice for sins.
Continue to Trust God
19So, brothers and sisters, we are completely free to enter the Most Holy Place without fear because of the blood of Jesus’ death. 20We can enter through a new and living way that Jesus opened for us. It leads through the curtain—Christ’s body. 21And since we have a great priest over God’s house, 22let us come near to God with a sincere heart and a sure faith, because we have been made free from a guilty conscience, and our bodies have been washed with pure water. 23Let us hold firmly to the hope that we have confessed, because we can trust God to do what he promised.
24Let us think about each other and help each other to show love and do good deeds. 25You should not stay away from the church meetings, as some are doing, but you should meet together and encourage each other. Do this even more as you see the day coming.
26If we decide to go on sinning after we have learned the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice for sins. 27There is nothing but fear in waiting for the judgment and the terrible fire that will destroy all those who live against God. 28Anyone who refused to obey the law of Moses was found guilty from the proof given by two or three witnesses. He was put to death without mercy. 29So what do you think should be done to those who do not respect the Son of God, who look at the blood of the agreement that made them holy as no different from others’ blood, who insult the Spirit of God’s grace? Surely they should have a much worse punishment. 30We know that God said, “I will punish those who do wrong; I will repay them.” And he also said, “The Lord will judge his people.” 31It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32Remember those days in the past when you first learned the truth. You had a hard struggle with many sufferings, but you continued strong. 33Sometimes you were hurt and attacked before crowds of people, and sometimes you shared with those who were being treated that way. 34You helped the prisoners. You even had joy when all that you owned was taken from you, because you knew you had something better and more lasting.
35So do not lose the courage you had in the past, which has a great reward. 36You must hold on, so you can do what God wants and receive what he has promised. 37For in a very short time,
“The One who is coming will come
and will not be delayed.
38Those who are right with me
will live by faith.
But if they turn back with fear,
I will not be pleased with them.”#Habakkuk 2:3–4
39But we are not those who turn back and are lost. We are people who have faith and are saved.
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Hebrews 10
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1For the law having a shadow of the coming good things — not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near,
2since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified?
3but in those [sacrifices] is a remembrance of sins every year,
4for it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, ‘Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not will, and a body Thou didst prepare for me,
6in burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offerings, Thou didst not delight,
7then I said, Lo, I come, (in a volume of the book it hath been written concerning me,) to do, O God, Thy will;’
8saying above — ‘Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and concerning sinoffering Thou didst not will, nor delight in,’ — which according to the law are offered —
9then he said, ‘Lo, I come to do, O God, Thy will;’ he doth take away the first that the second he may establish;
10in the which will we are having been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once,
11and every priest, indeed, hath stood daily serving, and the same sacrifices many times offering, that are never able to take away sins.
12And He, for sin one sacrifice having offered — to the end, did sit down on the right hand of God, —
13as to the rest, expecting till He may place his enemies [as] his footstool,
14for by one offering he hath perfected to the end those sanctified;
15and testify to us also doth the Holy Spirit, for after that He hath said before,
16‘This [is] the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws on their hearts, and upon their minds I will write them,’
17and ‘their sins and their lawlessness I will remember no more;’
18and where forgiveness of these [is], there is no more offering for sin.
19Having, therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holy places, in the blood of Jesus,
20which way he did initiate for us — new and living, through the vail, that is, his flesh —
21and a high priest over the house of God,
22may we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed with pure water;
23may we hold fast the unwavering profession of the hope, (for faithful [is] He who did promise),
24and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,
25not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain [is], but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.
26For we — wilfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth — no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice,
27but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery zeal, about to devour the opposers;
28any one who did set at nought a law of Moses, apart from mercies, by two or three witnesses, doth die,
29of how much sorer punishment shall he be counted worthy who the Son of God did trample on, and the blood of the covenant did count a common thing, in which he was sanctified, and to the Spirit of the grace did despite?
30for we have known Him who is saying, ‘Vengeance [is] Mine, I will recompense, saith the Lord;’ and again, ‘The Lord shall judge His people;’ —
31fearful [is] the falling into the hands of a living God.
32And call to your remembrance the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye did endure much conflict of sufferings,
33partly both with reproaches and tribulations being made spectacles, and partly having become partners of those so living,
34for also with my bonds ye sympathised, and the robbery of your goods with joy ye did receive, knowing that ye have in yourselves a better substance in the heavens, and an enduring one.
35Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward,
36for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise,
37for yet a very very little, He who is coming will come, and will not tarry;
38and ‘the righteous by faith shall live,’ and ‘if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,’
39and we are not of those drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul.
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