Hebrews 10
1 For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
For the law having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things; by the selfsame sacrifices which they offer continually every year, can never make the comers thereunto perfect:
2 If it could, would not the offerings have ceased? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt the guilt of their sins.
For then they would have ceased to be offered: because the worshippers once cleansed should have no conscience of sin any longer:
3 Instead, those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins,
But in them there is made a commemoration of sins every year.
4 because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
For it is impossible that with the blood of oxen and goats sin should be taken away.
5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me.
Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith: Sacrifice and oblation thou wouldest not: but a body thou hast fitted to me:
6 In burnt offerings and sin offerings You took no delight.
Holocausts for sin did not please thee.
7 Then I said, ‘Here I am, it is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God.’”
Then said I: Behold I come: in the head of the book it is written of me: that I should do thy will, O God.
8 In the passage above He says, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not desire, nor did You delight in them” (although they are offered according to the law).
In saying before, Sacrifices, and oblations, and holocausts for sin thou wouldest not, neither are they pleasing to thee, which are offered according to the law.
9 Then He adds, “Here I am, I have come to do Your will.” He takes away the first to establish the second.
Then said I: Behold, I come to do thy will, O God: he taketh away the first, that he may establish that which followeth.
10 And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
In the which will, we are sanctified by the oblation of the body of Jesus Christ once.
11 Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
And every priest indeed standeth daily ministering, and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
12 But when this Priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God.
But this man offering one sacrifice for sins, for ever sitteth on the right hand of God,
13 Since that time, He waits for His enemies to be made a footstool for His feet,
From henceforth expecting, until his enemies be made his footstool.
14 because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.
For by one oblation he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First He says:
And the Holy Ghost also doth testify this to us. For after that he said:
16 “This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.”
And this is the testament which I will make unto them after those days, saith the Lord. I will give my laws in their hearts, and on their minds will I write them:
17 Then He adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”
And their sins and iniquities I will remember no more.
18 And where these have been forgiven, an offering for sin is no longer needed.
Now where there is a remission of these, there is no more an oblation for sin.
19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,
Having therefore, brethren, a confidence in the entering into the holies by the blood of Christ;
20 by the new and living way opened for us through the curtain of His body,
A new and living way which he hath dedicated for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh,
21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
And a high priest over the house of God:
22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with clean water.
23 Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering (for he is faithful that hath promised),
24 And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds.
And let us consider one another, to provoke unto charity and to good works:
25 Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
Not forsaking our assembly, as some are accustomed; but comforting one another, and so much the more as you see the day approaching.
26 If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,
For if we sin wilfully after having the knowledge of the truth, there is now left no sacrifice for sins,
27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.
But a certain dreadful expectation of judgment, and the rage of a fire which shall consume the adversaries.
28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
A man making void the law of Moses, dieth without any mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 How much more severely do you think one deserves to be punished who has trampled on the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
How much more, do you think he deserveth worse punishments, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath esteemed the blood of the testament unclean, by which he was sanctified, and hath offered an affront to the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge His people.”
For we know him that hath said: Vengeance belongeth to me, and I will repay. And again: The Lord shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 Remember the early days that you were in the light. In those days, you endured a great conflict in the face of suffering.
But call to mind the former days, wherein, being illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions.
33 Sometimes you were publicly exposed to ridicule and persecution; at other times you were partners with those who were so treated.
And on the one hand indeed, by reproaches and tribulations, were made a gazingstock; and on the other, became companions of them that were used in such sort.
34 You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, knowing that you yourselves had a better and permanent possession.
For you both had compassion on them that were in bands, and took with joy the being stripped of your own goods, knowing that you have a better and a lasting substance.
35 So do not throw away your confidence; it holds a great reward.
Do not therefore lose your confidence, which hath a great reward.
36 You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.
For patience is necessary for you; that, doing the will of God, you may receive the promise.
37 For, “In just a little while, He who is coming will come and will not delay.
For yet a little and a very little while, and he that is to come, will come, and will not delay.
38 But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”
But my just man liveth by faith; but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please my soul.
39 But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
But we are not the children of withdrawing unto perdition, but of faith to the saving of the soul.
