Hebrews 10
1 The Law, though able to foreshadow the better system which was coming, never had its actual substance. Its priests, with those sacrifices which they offer continuously year after year, can never make those who come to worship perfect.
NOW the law, having a shadow of the good things which were to come, not the very substance of the things, cannot possibly, by the same sacrifices which they offer year by year continually, make those perfect who approach God;
2 Otherwise, would not the offering of these sacrifices have been abandoned, as the worshipers, having been once purified, would have had their consciences clear from sins?
else they would have discontinued to make the offering, because they who performed the service being once made clean, would have had no more sense of sins on their conscience.
3 But, on the contrary, these sacrifices recall their sins to mind year after year.
But in these sacrifices there is a commemoration of sins every year.
4 For the blood of bulls and goats is powerless to remove sins.
For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sin.
5 That is why, when he was coming into the world, the Christ declared – “Sacrifice and offering you do not desire, but you provide for me a body;
Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, “Sacrifice and oblation thou hast not chosen, but thou hast exactly fashioned a body for me:
6 You take no pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.
thou hast had no delight in whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin:
7 So I said, ‘See, I have come’ (as is written of me in the pages of the book), ‘To do your will, God.’”
then I said, Here am I; (in the volume of the book it is written of me) I come to do thy will, O God.”
8 First come the words – “You do not desire, nor do you take pleasure in, sacrifices, offerings, burnt offerings, and sacrifices for sin” (offerings regularly made under the Law),
Having said before that sacrifice, and oblation, and whole burnt-offerings and sin-offerings thou hast not chosen, nor takest pleasure in, (which are offered according to the law, )
9 and then there is added – “See, I have come to do your will.” The former sacrifices are set aside to be replaced by the latter.
he then added, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He abolishes the first that he may establish the second.
10 And it is in the fulfilment of the will of God that we have been purified by the sacrifice, once and for all, of the body of Jesus Christ.
By the which will we are sanctified through the oblation of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all.
11 Every other priest stands day after day at his ministrations, and offers the same sacrifices over and over again – sacrifices that can never take sins away.
And every priest standeth indeed daily performing the divine service, and frequently offering the same sacrifices, which cannot possibly take away sins:
12 But, this priest, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, which should serve for all time, “took his seat at the right hand of God,”
but this person, having offered one sacrifice for sins, for ever hath seated himself at the right hand of God;
13 and has since then been waiting “for his enemies to be put as a stool for his feet.”
henceforth waiting till his enemies be put as a footstool for his feet.
14 By a single offering he has made perfect for all time those who are being purified.
For by one oblation he hath made those perfect for ever who are sanctified.
15 We have also the testimony of the Holy Spirit. For, after saying –
Now the Holy Ghost also beareth this testimony to us: for after declaring before,
16 “‘This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days,’ says the Lord; ‘I will impress my laws on their hearts, and will inscribe them on their minds,’”
“This is the testament which I will appoint to them after those days, saith the Lord; giving my laws to their hearts, even on their minds will I inscribe them;”
17 then we have – “And their sins and their iniquities I will no longer remember.”
he adds, “and their sins and their iniquities I will in no wise remember any more.”
18 And, when these are forgiven, there is no further need of an offering for sin.
Now where there is remission of these, no more offering for sin is needed.
19 Therefore, friends, since we may enter the sanctuary with confidence, in virtue of the blood of Jesus,
Having therefore, brethren, entire liberty of entrance into the holies by the blood of Jesus―
20 by the way which he inaugurated for us – a new and living way, a way through the sanctuary curtain (that is, his human nature);
a way, which he hath consecrated for us, newly opened, and giving life, through the vail, that is, his flesh;
21 and, since we have in him “a great priest set over the house of God,”
and having a great priest over the house of God,
22 let us draw near to God in all sincerity of heart and in perfect faith, with our hearts purified by the sprinkled blood from all consciousness of wrong, and with our bodies washed with pure water.
let us come to him with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and the body washed with pure water:
23 Let us maintain the confession of our hope unshaken, for he who has given us his promise will not fail us.
let us hold fast the profession of hope unwavering, (for he who promises is faithful.)
24 Let us vie with one another in a rivalry of love and noble actions.
and let us attentively observe one another, to excite an ardour of love and of good works:
25 And let us not, as some do, cease to meet together; but, on the contrary, let us encourage one another, and all the more, now that you see the day drawing near.
not deserting the assembling of ourselves together, as is the custom with some, but exhorting to it; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
26 Remember, if we sin wilfully after we have gained a full knowledge of the truth, there can be no further sacrifice for sin;
For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no more sacrifice for sins remaineth;
27 there is only a fearful anticipation of judgment, and a burning indignation which will destroy all opponents.
but a certain terrible expectation of judgment, and a burning indignation, ready to devour these enemies.
28 When someone disregarded the Law of Moses, they were, on the evidence of two or three witnesses, put to death without pity.
Any man who treated the law of Moses with neglect, was put to death, without mercy, on the deposition of two or three witnesses:
29 How much worse then, think you, will be the punishment deserved by those who have trampled underfoot the Son of God, who have treated the blood that rendered the covenant valid – the blood by which they were purified – as if it were not holy, and who have outraged the Spirit of love?
by how much, think ye, shall he be counted worthy of more condign punishment who hath trampled on the Son of God, and regarded the blood of his testament, by which he was sanctified, as an unclean thing, and hath treated the gracious Spirit contumeliously?
30 We know who it was that said – “It is for me to avenge, I will requite”; and again – “The Lord will judge his people.”
For we know him who declares, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.” And again, “The Lord will 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 Call to mind those early days in which, after you had received the light, you patiently underwent a long and painful conflict.
But remember the past days in which, after ye had been illuminated, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings;
33 Sometimes, in consequence of the taunts and injuries heaped on you, you became a public spectacle; and sometimes you suffered through having shown yourselves to be the friends of people who were in the same position in which you had been.
partly while publicly exposed to revilings and tribulations, partly as being in communion with those who were treated in this manner.
34 For you not only sympathised with those who were in prison, but you even took the confiscation of your possessions joyfully, knowing, as you did, that you had in yourselves a greater possession and a lasting one.
For ye have been fellow-sufferers with my bonds, and received with joy the plundering of your properties, knowing in yourselves that you have in the heavens a better substance, and permanent.
35 Do not, therefore, abandon the confidence that you have gained, for it has a great reward awaiting it.
Recede not therefore from your boldness of profession, which brings a great recompence of reward.
36 You still have need of patient endurance, in order that, when you have done God’s will, you may obtain the fulfilment of his promise.
For ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.
37 “For there is indeed but a very little while before he who is coming will have come, without delay;
For yet a little, very little while, and he that is coming will come, and will not delay.
38 and through faith the righteous will find life, but, if anyone draws back, my heart can find no pleasure in them.”
“The just man then will live by faith;” and if he draw back, my soul shall have no delight in him.
39 But we do not belong to those who draw back, to their ruin, but to those who have faith, to the saving of their souls.
But we are not of those who turn back unto perdition; but of those who believe to the salvation of the soul.
