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.
For the Law having a shadow of the good things coming—not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near,
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?
since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having been purified once?
3 But, on the contrary, these sacrifices recall their sins to mind year after year.
But in those [sacrifices] is a remembrance of sins every year,
4 For the blood of bulls and goats is powerless to remove sins.
for it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
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;
For this reason, coming into the world, He says, “Sacrifice and offering You did not will, and a body You prepared for Me;
6 You take no pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.
in burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offerings, You did not delight.
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, Behold, I come (in a volume of the scroll it has been written concerning Me), to do, O God, Your will”;
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),
saying above, “Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offering You did not will, nor delight 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.
then He said, “Behold, I come to do, O God, Your will”; He takes away 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.
in which will, we have been sanctified through the offering 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, indeed, has daily stood serving, and offering the same sacrifices many times, that are never able to 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 He, having offered one sacrifice for sin—to the end, sat down 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.”
as to the rest, expecting until He may place His enemies [as] His footstool,
14 By a single offering he has made perfect for all time those who are being purified.
for by one offering He has perfected to the end those being sanctified;
15 We have also the testimony of the Holy Spirit. For, after saying –
and the Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after that He has said 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 covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD, giving My laws on their hearts, and I will write them on their minds,”
17 then we have – “And their sins and their iniquities I will no longer remember.”
and, “I will remember their sins and their lawlessness no more”;
18 And, when these are forgiven, there is no further need of an offering for sin.
and where [there is] forgiveness of these, there is no longer offering for sin.
19 Therefore, friends, since we may enter the sanctuary with confidence, in virtue of the blood of Jesus,
Having, therefore, brothers, boldness for the entrance into the holy places, 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);
which [is] the way He initiated for us—new and living, through the veil, that is, His flesh—
21 and, since we have in him “a great priest set over the house of God,”
and 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.
may we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed 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.
may we hold fast the unwavering profession of the hope (for He who promised [is] faithful),
24 Let us vie with one another in a rivalry of love and noble actions.
and may we consider to provoke one another to love and to 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 forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as [is] a custom of some, but exhorting, and so much the more as you see the Day coming near.
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 are sinning willingly after receiving the full knowledge of the truth—there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
27 there is only a fearful anticipation of judgment, and a burning indignation which will destroy all opponents.
but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery zeal, about to devour the opposers;
28 When someone disregarded the Law of Moses, they were, on the evidence of two or three witnesses, put to death without pity.
anyone having set aside a law of Moses dies without mercies on the basis 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?
Of how much worse punishment will he be counted worthy who trampled on the Son of God, and counted the blood of the covenant a common thing, by which he was sanctified, and having insulted the Spirit of grace?
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 have known Him who is saying, “Vengeance [is] Mine, I will repay, says 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] fearful 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 call to your remembrance the former days, in which, having been enlightened, you endured much 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.
this indeed, being made spectacles with both insults and afflictions, now this, having become partners of those so living,
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 you also sympathized with my bonds, and the robbery of your goods you received with joy, knowing that you have in yourselves a better substance in the heavens, and an enduring one.
35 Do not, therefore, abandon the confidence that you have gained, for it has a great reward awaiting it.
You may not cast away, then, your boldness, which has great repayment 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 you have need of patience, that having done the will of God, you 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 [in] a very, very little [while], He who is coming will come, and will not linger,”
38 and through faith the righteous will find life, but, if anyone draws back, my heart can find no pleasure in them.”
but, “The righteous will live by faith; and if he may draw back, My soul has no pleasure 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 drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul.
