Hebrews 10
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Christ’s once-for-all sacrifice
1The Law is a shadow of the good things that are coming, not the real things themselves. It never can perfect the ones who are trying to draw near to God through the same sacrifices that are offered continually every year. 2Otherwise, wouldn’t they have stopped being offered? If the people carrying out their religious duties had been completely cleansed once, no one would have been aware of sin anymore. 3Instead, these sacrifices are a reminder of sin every year, 4because it’s impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5Therefore, when he comes into the world he says,
“You didn’t want a sacrifice or an offering, ”
“but you prepared a body for me; ”
6“you weren’t pleased with entirely burned offerings or a sin offering. ”
7“So then I said, ”
“Look, I’ve come to do your will, God.”
“This has been written about me in the scroll.”#10.7 Ps 40:6-8
8He says above, “You didn’t want ”and “you weren’t pleased with a sacrifice or an offering ”or “with entirely burned offerings or a purification offering,”#10.8 Ps 40:6 which are offered because the Law requires them. 9Then he said, “Look, I’ve come to do your will”.#10.9 Ps 40:7-8 He puts an end to the first to establish the second. 10We have been made holy by God’s will through the offering of Jesus Christ’s body once for all.
11Every priest stands every day serving and offering the same sacrifices over and over, sacrifices that can never take away sins. 12But when this priest offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right side of God. 13Since then, he’s waiting until his enemies are made into a footstool for his feet, 14because he perfected the people who are being made holy with one offering for all time.
15The Holy Spirit affirms this when saying,
16“This is the covenant that I will make with them. ”
“After these days, says the Lord, ”
“I will place my laws in their hearts ”
“and write them on their minds. ”
17“And I won’t remember their sins ”
“and their lawless behavior anymore.”#10.17 Jer 31:33-34
18When there is forgiveness for these things, there is no longer an offering for sin.
Second summary of the message
19Brothers and sisters, we have confidence that we can enter the holy of holies by means of Jesus’ blood, 20through a new and living way that he opened up for us through the curtain, which is his body, 21and we have a great high priest over God’s house.
22Therefore, let’s draw near with a genuine heart with the certainty that our faith gives us, since our hearts are sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies are washed with pure water.
23Let’s hold on to the confession of our hope without wavering, because the one who made the promises is reliable.
24And let us consider each other carefully for the purpose of sparking love and good deeds. 25Don’t stop meeting together with other believers, which some people have gotten into the habit of doing. Instead, encourage each other, especially as you see the day drawing near.
Judgment for intentional sin
26If we make the decision to sin after we receive the knowledge of the truth, there isn’t a sacrifice for sins left any longer. 27There’s only a scary expectation of judgment and of a burning fire that’s going to devour God’s opponents. 28When someone rejected the Law from Moses, they were put to death without mercy on the basis of the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29How much worse punishment do you think is deserved by the person who walks all over God’s Son, who acts as if the blood of the covenant that made us holy is just ordinary blood, and who insults the Spirit of grace? 30We know the one who said,
“Judgment is mine; I will pay people back.”#10.30 Deut 32:35
And he also said,
“The Lord will judge his people.”#10.30 Deut 32:36; Ps 135:14
31It’s scary to fall into the hands of the living God!
Confidence and faith to endure
32But remember the earlier days, after you saw the light. You stood your ground while you were suffering from an enormous amount of pressure. 33Sometimes you were exposed to insults and abuse in public. Other times you became partners with those who were treated that way. 34You even showed sympathy toward people in prison and accepted the confiscation of your possessions with joy, since you knew that you had better and lasting possessions. 35So don’t throw away your confidence—it brings a great reward. 36You need to endure so that you can receive the promises after you do God’s will.
37“In a little while longer, ”
“the one who is coming will come and won’t delay; ”
38“but my righteous one will live by faith, ”
“and my whole being won’t be pleased with anyone who shrinks back.”#10.38 Hab 2:3-4
39But we aren’t the sort of people who timidly draw back and end up being destroyed. We’re the sort of people who have faith so that our whole beings are preserved.
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Hebrews 10
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1For 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. 2For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. 3But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. 4For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
5 #
Ps 40.6-8. Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he saith,
Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not,
but a body hast thou prepared me:
6in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
7Then said I, Lo, I come
(in the volume of the book it is written of me)
to do thy will, O God.
8Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; 9then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 #
Exod 29.38. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 12#Ps 110.1. but this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; 13from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. 14For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. 15Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
16 #
Jer 31.33. This is the covenant that I will make with them
after those days, saith the Lord;
I will put my laws into their hearts,
and in their minds will I write them;
17 #
Jer 31.34. and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
Let Us Draw Near and Hold Fast
19Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21and having a high priest over the house of God; 22#Lev 8.30; Ezek 36.25; Lev 8.6. 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. 23Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; for he is faithful that promised; 24and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: 25not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
26For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 27#Isa 26.11. but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. 28#Deut 17.6; 19.15. He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: 29#Exod 24.8. 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 thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? 30#Deut 32.35. For we know him that hath said,
Vengeance belongeth unto me,
I will recompense, saith the Lord.
And again,
The Lord shall judge his people.#Deut 32.36.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; 33partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used. 34For ye had compassion of me in my bonds,#10.34 of me in my bonds. Some early manuscripts have on them who were in bonds. and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. 35Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. 36For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
37 #
Hab 2.3,4. For yet a little while,
and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
38Now the just shall live by faith:
but if any man draw back,
my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
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