Hebrews 10
1 For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean.
For, since the Law exhibits only an outline of the blessings to come and not a perfect representation of the things themselves, the priests can never, by repeating the same sacrifices which they continually offer year after year, give complete freedom from sin to those who draw near.
2 For if this had been possible, would there not have been an end of those offerings, because the worshippers would have been made completely clean and would have been no longer conscious of sins?
For then would not the sacrifices have ceased to be offered, because the consciences of the worshippers--who in that case would now have been cleansed once for all--would no longer be burdened with sins?
3 But year by year there is a memory of sins in those offerings.
But in those sacrifices sins are recalled to memory year after year.
4 Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins.
For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5 So that when he comes into the world, he says, You had no desire for offerings, but you made a body ready for me;
That is why, when He comes into the world, He says, "Sacrifice and offering Thou has not desired, but a body Thou hast prepared for Me.
6 You had no joy in burned offerings or in offerings for sin.
In whole burnt-offerings and in sin-offerings Thou hast taken no pleasure.
7 Then I said, See, I have come to do your pleasure, O God (as it is said of me in the roll of the book).
Then I said, 'I have come--in the roll of the book it is written concerning Me--to do Thy will, O God.'"
8 After saying, You had no desire for offerings, for burned offerings or offerings for sin (which are made by the law) and you had no pleasure in them,
After saying the words I have just quoted, "Sacrifices and offerings or whole burnt-offerings and sin-offerings Thou hast not desired or taken pleasure in" --all such being offered in obedience to the Law--
9 Then he said, See, I have come to do your pleasure. He took away the old order, so that he might put the new order in its place.
He then adds, "I have come to do Thy will." He does away with the first in order to establish the second.
10 By that pleasure we have been made holy, by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for ever.
It is through that divine will that we have been set free from sin, through the offering of Jesus Christ as our sacrifice once for all.
11 And every priest takes his place at the altar day by day, doing what is necessary, and making again and again the same offerings which are never able to take away sins.
And while every priest stands ministering, day after day, and constantly offering the same sacrifices--though such can never rid us of our sins--
12 But when Jesus had made one offering for sins for ever, he took his place at the right hand of God;
this Priest, on the contrary, after offering for sins a single sacrifice of perpetual efficacy, took His seat at God's right hand,
13 And has been waiting there from that time, till all who are against him are made a foot-rest for his feet.
waiting from that time onward until His enemies be put as a footstool under His feet.
14 Because by one offering he has made complete for ever those who are made holy.
For by a single offering He has for ever completed the blessing for those whom He is setting free from sin.
15 And the Holy Spirit is a witness for us: for after he had said,
And the Holy Spirit also gives us His testimony; for when He had said,
16 This is the agreement which I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws in their hearts, writing them in their minds; he said,
"'This is the Covenant that I will make with them after those days,' says the Lord: 'I will put My laws upon their hearts and will write them on their minds;'"
17 And I will keep no more memory of their sins and of their evil-doings.
He adds, "And their sins and offences I will remember no longer."
18 Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no more offering for sin.
But where these have been forgiven no further offering for sin is required.
19 So then, my brothers, being able to go into the holy place without fear, because of the blood of Jesus,
Since then, brethren, we have free access to the Holy place through the blood of Jesus,
20 By the new and living way which he made open for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
by the new and ever-living way which He opened up for us through the rending of the veil--that is to say, of His earthly nature--
21 And having a great priest over the house of God,
and since we have a great Priest who has authority over the house of God,
22 Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:
let us draw near with sincerity and unfaltering faith, having had our hearts sprinkled, once for all, from consciences oppressed with sin, and our bodies bathed in pure water.
23 Let us keep the witness of our hope strong and unshaking, for he is true who has given his word:
Let us hold firmly to an unflinching avowal of our hope, for He is faithful who gave us the promises.
24 And let us be moving one another at all times to love and good works;
And let us bestow thought on one another with a view to arousing one another to brotherly love and right conduct;
25 Not giving up our meetings, as is the way of some, but keeping one another strong in faith; and all the more because you see the day coming near.
not neglecting--as some habitually do--to meet together, but encouraging one another, and doing this all the more since you can see the day of Christ approaching.
26 For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins,
For if we wilfully persist in sin after having received the full knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains in reserve any other sacrifice for sins.
27 But only a great fear of being judged, and of the fire of wrath which will be the destruction of the haters of God.
There remains nothing but a certain awful expectation of judgement, and the fury of a fire which before long will devour the enemies of the truth.
28 A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses:
Any one who bids defiance to the Law of Moses is put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
29 But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment?
How much severer punishment, think you, will he be held to deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, has not regarded as holy that Covenant-blood with which he was set free from sin, and has insulted the Spirit from whom comes grace?
30 For we have had experience of him who says, Punishment is mine, I will give reward. And again, The Lord will be judge of his people.
For we know who it is that has said, "Vengeance belongs to Me: I will pay back;" and again, "The Lord will be His people's judge."
31 We may well go in fear of falling into the hands of the living God.
It is an awful thing to fall into the hands of the ever-living God.
32 But give thought to the days after you had seen the light, when you went through a great war of troubles;
But continually recall to mind the days now past, when on being first enlightened you went through a great conflict and many sufferings.
33 In part, in being attacked by angry words and cruel acts, before the eyes of everyone, and in part, in being united with those who were attacked in this way.
This was partly through allowing yourselves to be made a public spectacle amid reproaches and persecutions, and partly through coming forward to share the sufferings of those who were thus treated.
34 For you had pity on those who were in prison, and had joy in the loss of your property, in the knowledge that you still had a better property and one which you would keep for ever.
For you not only showed sympathy with those who were imprisoned, but you even submitted with joy when your property was taken from you, being well aware that you have in your own selves a more valuable possession and one which will remain.
35 So do not give up your hope which will be greatly rewarded.
Therefore do not cast from you your confident hope, for it will receive a vast reward.
36 For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.
For you stand in need of patient endurance, so that, as the result of having done the will of God, you may receive the promised blessing.
37 In a very little time he who is coming will come; he will not be slow.
For there is still but a short time and then "The coming One will come and will not delay.
38 But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.
But it is by faith that My righteous servant shall live; and if he shrinks back, My soul takes no pleasure in him."
39 But we are not of those who go back to destruction; but of those who have faith even to the salvation of the soul.
But we are not people who shrink back and perish, but are among those who believe and gain possession of their souls.
