Hebrews 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.
For in the law there was a shadow of the good things to come; not the substance of the things themselves. Therefore, although the same sacrifices were every year offered, they could never perfect those who offered them.
2 Or else would not they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?
For, if they had perfected them, they would long ago have desisted from their offerings; because their conscience could no more disquiet them, who were once purified, on account of their sins.
3 But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins.
But in those sacrifices, they every year recognized their sins.
4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
For the blood of bulls and of goats cannot purge away sins.
5 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “You did not desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me.
Therefore, when entering the world, he said: In sacrifices and oblations, thou hast not had pleasure; but thou hast clothed me with a body.
6 You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.
And holocausts on account of sins, thou hast not asked.
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.’”
Then I said: Behold I come, as it is written of me in the beginning of the books, to do thy pleasure, O God.
8 Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you did not desire, neither had pleasure in them” (those which are offered according to the law),
He first said: Sacrifices and oblations and holocausts for sins, which were offered according to the law, thou desiredst not;
9 then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,
and afterwards he said: Behold I come to do thy pleasure, O God: hereby, he abolished the former, that he might establish the latter.
10 by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
For by this his pleasure, we are sanctified; through the offering of the body of Jesus the Messiah a single time.
11 Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,
For every high priest who stood and ministered daily, offered again and again the same sacrifices, which never were sufficient to purge away sins.
12 but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God,
But this Priest offered one sacrifice for sins, and for ever sat down at the right hand of God;
13 from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.
and thenceforth waited, until his foes should be placed as a footstool under his feet.
14 For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
For by one offering, he hath perfected for ever, them who are sanctified by him.
15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,
And the Holy Spirit also testifieth to us, by saying:
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;” then he says,
This is the covenant which I will give them after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my law into their minds, and inscribe it on their hearts;
17 “I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more.”
and their iniquity and their sins, I will not remember against them.
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
Now, where there is a remission of sins, there is no offering for sin demanded.
19 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
We have therefore, my brethren, assurance in entering into the sanctuary, by the blood of Jesus, and by a way of life,
20 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh,
which he hath now consecrated for us, through the veil, that is his flesh.
21 and having a great priest over God’s house,
And we have a high priest over the house of God.
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,
Let us, therefore draw near, with a true heart, and with the confidence of faith, being sprinkled as to our hearts, and pure from an evil conscience, and our body being washed with pure water.
23 let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.
And let us persevere in the profession of our hope, and not waver; for he is faithful who hath made the promise to us.
24 Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,
And let us look on each other, for the excitement of love and good works.
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.
And let us not forsake our meetings, as is the custom of some; but entreat ye one another; and the more, as ye see that day draw near.
26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
For if a man sin, voluntarily, after he hath received a knowledge of the truth, there is no longer a sacrifice which may be offered for sins:
27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.
but the fearful judgment impendeth, and the zeal of fire that consumeth the adversaries.
28 A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.
For if he, who transgressed the law of Moses, died without mercies, at the mouth of two or three witnesses;
29 How much worse punishment do you think he will 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?
how much more, think ye, will he receive capital punishment, who hath trodden upon the Son of God, and hath accounted the blood of his covenant, by which he is sanctified, as the blood of all men, and hath treated the Spirit of grace with contumely?
30 For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me. I will repay,” says the Lord. Again, “The Lord will judge his people.”
For we know him who hath said, Retribution is mine; and I will repay: 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 very terrible, to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings:
Therefore, recollect ye the former days, those in which ye received baptism, and endured a great conflict of sufferings, with reproach and affliction;
33 partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions, and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
and ye were a gazing stock, and also were the associates of persons who endured these things:
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.
and ye were grieved for those who were imprisoned; and ye cheerfully endured the plundering of your goods, because ye knew that ye had a possession in heaven, superior and not transitory.
35 Therefore do not throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
Therefore cast not away your assurance which is to have a great reward.
36 For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
For ye have need of patience; that ye may do the pleasure of God, and may receive the promise.
37 “In a very little while, he who comes will come and will not wait.
Because, yet a little, and it is a very little time, when he that cometh, will come, and will not delay.
38 But the righteous one will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
Now the just by my faith, will live: but if he draw back, my soul will not have pleasure in him.
39 But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
But we are not of that drawing-back, which leadeth to perdition; but of that faith, which maketh us possess our soul.
