| 10 | Hebrews | ||
| 1 | FOR THE LAW CONTAINS but a shadow, and no true image, of the good things which were to come; it provides for the same sacrifices year after year, and with these it can never bring the worshippers to perfection for all time. | ||
| 2 | If it could, these sacrifices would surely have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, cleansed once for all, would no longer have any sense of sin. | ||
| 3 | But instead, in these sacrifices year after year sins are brought to mind, | ||
| 4 | because sins can never be removed by the blood of bulls and goats. | ||
| 5 | That is why, at his coming into the world, he says:
but thou hast prepared a body for me. | - Sacrifices and offerings thou hast not desired Hb.10.5-7 - Ps.40.6-8 | |
| 6 | Whole-offerings and sin-offerings thou didst not delight in. | ||
| 7 | Then I said, "Here am I: as it is written of me in the scroll, I have come, O God, to do thy will."' | ||
| 8 | First he says, 'Sacrifices and offerings, whole-offerings and sin-offerings, thou didst not desire nor delight in'—although the Law prescribes them— | - Thou hast neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices Hb.10.8 - Ps.40.6 | |
| 9 | and then he says, 'I have come to do thy will.' He thus annuls the former to establish the latter. | - Lo, I have come to do thy will. Hb.10.9 - Ps.40.7 | |
| 10 | And it is by the will of God that we have been consecrated, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all. | ||
| 11 | Every priest stands performing his service daily and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never remove sins. | ||
| 12 | But Christ offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, and took his seat at the right hand of God, | - he sat down at the right hand of God Hb.10.12 - Ps.110.1 | |
| 13 | where he waits henceforth until his enemies are made his footstool. | - his enemies should be made a stool for his feet Hb.10.13 - Ps.110.1 | |
| 14 | For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are thus consecrated. | ||
| 15 | Here we have also the testimony of the Holy Spirit: he first says, | ||
| 16 | 'This is the covenant which I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will set my laws in their hearts and write them on their understanding'; | - I will put my laws on their hearts Hb.10.16 - Jr.31.33 | |
| 17 | then he adds, 'and their sins and wicked deeds I will remember no more at all.' | - I will remember their sins and their misdeeds no more. Hb.10.17 - Jr.31.34 | |
| 18 | And where these have been forgiven, there is no longer any offering for sin. | ||
| 19 | SO NOW, MY FRIENDS, the blood of Jesus makes us free to enter boldly into the sanctuary | Exhortation and Warning Hb.10.19-39 | |
| 20 | by the new, living way which he has opened for us through the curtain, the way of his flesh. | ||
| 21 | We have, moreover, a great priest set over the household of God; | ||
| 22 | so let us make our approach in sincerity of heart and full assurance of faith, our guilty hearts sprinkled clean, our bodies washed with pure water. | ||
| 23 | Let us be firm and unswerving in the confession of our hope, for the Giver of the promise may be trusted. | ||
| 24 | We ought to see how each of us may best arouse others to love and active goodness, | ||
| 25 | not staying away from our meetings, as some do, but rather encouraging one another, all the more because you see the Day drawing near. | ||
| 26 | For if we persist in sin after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins remains: | ||
| 27 | only a terrifying expectation of judgement and a fierce fire which will consume God's enemies. | ||
| 28 | If a man disregards the Law of Moses, he is put to death without pity on the evidence of two or three witnesses. | - A man who has violated the law of Moses dies Hb.10.28 - Dt.17.6, Dt.19.15 | |
| 29 | Think how much more severe a penalty that man will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was consecrated, and affronted God's gracious Spirit! | ||
| 30 | For we know who it is that has said, 'Justice is mine: I will repay'; and again, 'The Lord will judge his people.' | - For we know him who said "Vengeance is mine, I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge Hb.10.30 - Dt.32.35 | |
| 31 | It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God. | ||
| 32 | Remember the days gone by, when, newly enlightened, you met the challenge of great sufferings and held firm. | ||
| 33 | Some of you were abused and tormented to make a public show, while others stood loyally by those who were so treated. | ||
| 34 | For indeed you shared the sufferings of the prisoners, and you cheerfully accepted the seizure of your possessions, knowing that you possessed something better and more lasting. | ||
| 35 | Do not then throw away your confidence, for it carries a great reward. | ||
| 36 | You need endurance, if you are to do God's will and win what he has promised. | ||
| 37 | For 'soon, very soon' (in the words of Scripture), 'he who is to come will come; he will not delay; | - Hb.10.37 - Hab.2.3-4, Is.26.20 | |
| 38 | and by faith my righteous servant shall find life; but if a man shrinks back, I take no pleasure in him.' | but my righteous one shall live by faith Hb.10.38 - Ro.1.17, Ga.3.11 | |
| 39 | But we are not among those who shrink back and are lost; we have the faith to make life our own. | ||
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