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The Letter to the Hebrews, Chapter 10
{10:1} For the Torah, 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.
{10:2} Or else wouldn't they have ceased to be offered, because the
worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more
consciousness of sins? {10:3} But in those sacrifices there is a
yearly reminder of sins. {10:4} For it is impossible that the blood of
bulls and goats should take away sins. {10:5} Therefore when he comes
into the world, he says,
"Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire,
but you prepared a body for me;
{10:6} You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for
sin.
{10:7} Then I said, 'Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book
it is written of me)
to do your will, O God.'"[1]
{10:8} Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt
offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had
pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the Torah),
{10:9} then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He
takes away the first, that he may establish the second, {10:10} by
which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of
Yeshua the Messiah once for all. {10:11} Every priest indeed stands
day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices, which can
never take away sins, {10:12} but he, when he had offered one
sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God; {10:13}
from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his
feet. {10:14} For by one offering he has perfected forever those who
are being sanctified. {10:15} The Holy Spirit also testifies to us,
for after saying,
{10:16} "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;'"[2]
then he says,
{10:17} "I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more."[3]
{10:18} Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering
for sin. {10:19} Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into
the holy place by the blood of Yeshua, {10:20} by the way which he
dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to
say, his flesh; {10:21} and having a great priest over the house of
God, {10:22} 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, {10:23} let us hold fast the confession
of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.
{10:24} Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good
works, {10:25} 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. {10:26} For if we sin willfully after we
have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a
sacrifice for sins, {10:27} but a certain fearful expectation of
judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.
{10:28} A man who disregards the Torah of Moses dies without
compassion on the word of two or three witnesses. {10:29} 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? {10:30} For we know him who said,
"Vengeance belongs to me," says the Lord, "I will repay."[4] Again,
"The Lord will judge his people."[5] {10:31} It is a fearful thing to
fall into the hands of the living God. {10:32} But remember the former
days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great
struggle with sufferings; {10:33} partly, being exposed to both
reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those
who were treated so. {10:34} 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. {10:35} Therefore don't throw away your
boldness, which has a great reward. {10:36} For you need endurance so
that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
{10:37} "In a very little while,
he who comes will come, and will not wait.
{10:38} But the righteous will live by faith.
If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."[6]
{10:39} But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but
of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
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Footnotes:
[1] {10:7} Psalm 40:6-8
[2] {10:16} Jeremiah 31:33
[3] {10:17} Jeremiah 31:34
[4] {10:30} Deuteronomy 32:35
[5] {10:30} Deuteronomy 32:36; Psalm 135:14
[6] {10:38} Habakkuk 2:3-4
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