Hebrews 10:19–31

A Call to Persevere in Faith

¹⁹Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence^p to enter the Most Holy Place^q by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰by a new and living way^r opened for us through the curtain,^s that is, his body, ²¹and since we have a great priest^t over the house of God,^{u 22}let us draw near to God^v with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings,^w having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience^x and having our bodies washed with pure water.^{y 23}Let us hold unswervingly to the hope^z we profess,^a for he who promised is faithful.^{b 24}And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,^{c 25}not giving up meeting together,^d as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another^e—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.^f

²⁶If we deliberately keep on sinning^g after we have received the knowledge of the truth,^h no sacrifice for sins is left, ²⁷but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fireⁱ that will consume the enemies of God. ²⁸Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.^{j 29}How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God^k underfoot,^l who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant^m that sanctified them,ⁿ and who has insulted the Spirit^o of grace?^{p 30}For we know him who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,”^dq and again, “The Lord will judge his people.”^{er 31}It is a dreadful thing^s to fall into the hands^t of the living God.^u