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The Letter to the Hebrews, Chapter 10
{10:1} For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the
very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by
year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.
{10:2} Or else wouldn't they have ceased to be offered, because the
worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more
consciousness of sins? {10:3} But in those sacrifices there is yearly
reminder of sins. {10:4} For it is impossible that the blood of bulls
and goats should take away sins. {10:5} Therefore when he comes into
the world, he says,
"Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire,
but you prepared a body for me;
{10:6} You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for
sin.
{10:7} Then I said, 'Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book
it is written of me)
to do your will, O God.'"[1]
{10:8} Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt
offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had
pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the law),
{10:9} then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He
takes away the first, that he may establish the second, {10:10} by
which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of
Jesus Christ once for all. {10:11} Every priest indeed stands day by
day serving and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never
take away sins, {10:12} but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for
sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God; {10:13} from that
time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.
{10:14} For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are
being sanctified. {10:15} The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for
after saying,
{10:16} "This is the covenant that I will make with them:
'After those days,' says the Lord,
'I will put my laws on their heart,
I will also write them on their mind;'"[2]
then he says,
{10:17} "I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more."[3]
{10:18} Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering
for sin. {10:19} Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into
the holy place by the blood of Jesus, {10:20} by the way which he
dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to
say, his flesh; {10:21} and having a great priest over the house of
God, {10:22} let's draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith,
having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our
body washed with pure water, {10:23} let us hold fast the confession
of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.
{10:24} Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good
works, {10:25} not forsaking our own assembling together, as the
custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as
you see the Day approaching. {10:26} For if we sin willfully after we
have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a
sacrifice for sins, {10:27} but a certain fearful expectation of
judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.
{10:28} A man who disregards Moses' law dies without compassion on the
word of two or three witnesses. {10:29} How much worse punishment, do
you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the
Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he
was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
{10:30} For we know him who said, "Vengeance belongs to me," says the
Lord, "I will repay."[4] Again, "The Lord will judge his people."[5]
{10:31} It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living
God. {10:32} But remember the former days, in which, after you were
enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings; {10:33}
partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly,
becoming partakers with those who were treated so. {10:34} For you
both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the
plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a
better possession and an enduring one in the heavens. {10:35}
Therefore don't throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
{10:36} For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God,
you may receive the promise.
{10:37} "In a very little while,
he who comes will come, and will not wait.
{10:38} But the righteous will live by faith.
If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."[6]
{10:39} But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but
of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
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Footnotes:
[1] {10:7} Psalm 40:6-8
[2] {10:16} Jeremiah 31:33
[3] {10:17} Jeremiah 31:34
[4] {10:30} Deuteronomy 32:35
[5] {10:30} Deuteronomy 32:36; Psalm 135:14
[6] {10:38} Habakkuk 2:3-4
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