Hebrews 10
1 You see, the Law is but a shadow of the good things to come, not their actual matter, so it can never perfect those who approach with the same sacrifices that they offer endlessly, year after year.
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 Otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have had no more consciousness of sins, having been cleansed once for all?
For then they would have ceased to be offered: because the worshippers once cleansed should have no conscience of sin any longer:
3 However, 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, upon coming into the world He[S] says: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but You prepared a body 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 with burnt offerings and sin offerings You were not pleased.
Holocausts for sin did not please thee.
7 Then I said, ‘Yes indeed, I have come to do Your will, O God —thus it is written about me in the scroll of the book.’”
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 First He says, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not desire, nor were You pleased with them” (which 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 says, “Yes indeed, I have come to do Your will, O God.” He removes the first in order 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 By that will we have been sanctified through the offering 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 Now every priest has stood ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices that 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 He Himself, having offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, sat down at God's right.
But this man offering one sacrifice for sins, for ever sitteth on the right hand of God,
13 Since that time He is waiting until His enemies are placed as a footstool for His feet,
From henceforth expecting, until his enemies be made his footstool.
14 because by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
For by one oblation he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
15 Now the Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this, after having foreseen it:
And the Holy Ghost also doth testify this to us. For after that he said:
16 “‘This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their hearts and I will write 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 and I will not at all remember their sins and lawless deeds.’”
And their sins and iniquities I will remember no more.
18 Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.
Now where there is a remission of these, there is no more an oblation for sin.
19 Therefore, brothers, having courage 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 a new and living way that He inaugurated for us, through the curtain, that is to say, His flesh,
A new and living way which he hath dedicated for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh,
21 and having a Great Priest over the house of God,
And a high priest over the house of God:
22 let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts having been sprinkled from an evil conscience and our body having been washed with clean 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 fast the confession of the Hope without wavering, 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 contemplate one another, for the stirring up of love and good works,
And let us consider one another, to provoke unto charity and to good works:
25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves (like some are doing), but exhorting 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 Because, if we deliberately keep on sinning after having received the real knowledge of the Truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
For if we sin wilfully after having the knowledge of the truth, there is now left no sacrifice for sins,
27 just a certain fearful anticipation of judgment and fierce fire that is ready to consume the hostiles.
But a certain dreadful expectation of judgment, and the rage of a fire which shall consume the adversaries.
28 Anyone who rejected Moses' law 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 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be deemed worthy who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has regarded as unholy the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and who has 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 up to me,’ says the Lord, ‘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 dreadful 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 However, remember those earlier days in which, having been enlightened, you endured a great struggle of sufferings:
But call to mind the former days, wherein, being illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions.
33 partly being publicly exposed to both insults and oppression, and partly siding 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 Indeed, you also shared in the suffering of my chains; you even accepted the plundering of your possessions with joy, knowing that you have for yourselves a better and enduring possession in the heavens.
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, which has a great recompense.
Do not therefore lose your confidence, which hath a great reward.
36 You need perseverance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
For patience is necessary for you; that, doing the will of God, you may receive the promise.
37 For in a very 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 Now the righteous one will live by faith, yet if he backs away, my soul has 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 back away into ruin, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.
But we are not the children of withdrawing unto perdition, but of faith to the saving of the soul.
