Hebrews 10
10
Christʼs Sacrifice Once for All
1The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming — not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. 2Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. 3But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins. 4It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said:
“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
but a body you prepared for me;
6with burnt offerings and sin offerings
you were not pleased.
7Then I said, ‘Here I am — it is written about me in the scroll —
I have come to do your will, my God.’ ”#10:7 Psalm 40:6-8 (see Septuagint)
8First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them” — though they were offered in accordance with the law. 9Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second. 10And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, 13and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool. 14For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.
15The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says:
16“This is the covenant I will make with them
after that time, says the Lord.
I will put my laws in their hearts,
and I will write them on their minds.”#10:16 Jer. 31:33
17Then he adds:
“Their sins and lawless acts
I will remember no more.”#10:17 Jer. 31:34
18And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary.
A Call to Persevere in Faith
19Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, 21and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. 23Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another — and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
26If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. 28Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? 30For we know him who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,”#10:30 Deut. 32:35 and again, “The Lord will judge his people.”#10:30 Deut. 32:36; Psalm 135:14 31It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering. 33Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated. 34You suffered along with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions. 35So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.
36You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. 37For,
“In just a little while,
he who is coming will come
and will not delay.”#10:37 Isaiah 26:20; Hab. 2:3
38And,
“But my righteous#10:38 Some manuscripts But the righteous one will live by faith.
And I take no pleasure
in the one who shrinks back.”#10:38 Hab. 2:4 (see Septuagint)
39But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those 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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