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 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.
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?
Or else would not they have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?
3 But, on the contrary, these sacrifices recall their sins to mind year after year.
But in those sacrifices there is yearly reminder of sins.
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 sins.
5 That is why, when he was coming into the world, the Christ declared — ‘Sacrifice and offering thou dost not desire, but thou dost provide for me a body;
Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.
6 Thou dost take no pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.
Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no pleasure in.
7 So I said, “See, I have come’ (as is written of me in the pages of the Book), “To do thy will, O God.”’
Then I said, 'Look, I have come. It is written about me in the scroll of a book; to do your will, God.'"
8 First come the words — ‘Thou dost not desire, nor dost thou take pleasure in, sacrifices, offerings, burnt offerings, and sacrifices for sin’ (offerings regularly made under the Law),
Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire, nor took pleasure in" (which are offered according to the Law),
9 and then there is added — ‘See, I have come to do thy will.’ The former sacrifices are set aside to be replaced by the latter.
then he said, "Look, I have come to do 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.
by 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.
Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never 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 one, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;
13 and has since then been waiting ‘for his enemies to be put as a stool for his feet.’
from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.
14 By a single offering he has made perfect for all time those who are being purified.
For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
15 We have also the testimony of the Holy Spirit. For, after saying —
The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,
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, 'I will put my laws on their hearts, I will also 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 iniquities no more."
18 And, when these are forgiven, there is no further need of an offering for sin.
Now where forgiveness of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
19 Therefore, Brothers, since we may enter the Sanctuary with confidence, in virtue of the blood of Jesus,
Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place 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);
by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the curtain, that is to say, 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 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,
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 confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.
24 Let us vie with one another in a rivalry of love and noble actions.
Let us consider how to motivate one another to love and 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 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.
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 willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a 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 expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.
28 When a man disregarded the Law of Moses, he was, on the evidence of two or three witnesses, put to death without pity.
Anyone who disregards the Law of Moses dies without compassion on the word 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 very blood by which they were purified — as of no account, and who have outraged the Spirit of Love?
How much worse punishment, do you think, will he 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?
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 said, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay." 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 former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;
33 Sometimes, in consequence of the taunts and injuries heaped upon you, you became a public spectacle; and sometimes you suffered through having shown yourselves to be the friends of men who were in the very position in which you had been.
partly, being exposed to insults and abuse in public, and sometimes you came to share with others who were treated in the same way.
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 both had compassion on them that were in chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an enduring one.
35 Do not, therefore, abandon the confidence that you have gained, for it has a great reward awaiting it.
Therefore do not throw away your boldness, which has a great 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 need patient endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
37 ‘For there is indeed but a very little while Ere He who is coming will have come, without delay;
"For in just a little while, he who is coming will come and will not delay.
38 And through faith the Righteous man shall find his Life, But, if a man draws back, my heart can find no pleasure in him.’
But the righteous will live by faith, and if he holds 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 who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
