Hebrews 10

Animal Sacrifices Insufficient

10For the law, having a ^ashadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, ^bcan never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. ²For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once ¹purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. ³But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. ⁴For ^cit is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.

Christ’s Death Fulfills God’s Will

⁵Therefore, when He came into the world, He said:

^d“Sacrifice and offering You did not desire,

But a body You have prepared for Me.

⁶In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin

You had no pleasure.

⁷Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—

In the volume of the book it is written of Me—

To do Your will, O God.’ ”

⁸Previously saying, “Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the law), ⁹then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, ²O God.” He takes away the first that He may establish the second. ^10eBy that will we have been ³sanctified ^fthrough the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Christ’s Death Perfects the Sanctified

¹¹And every priest stands ^gministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. ^12hBut this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down ⁱat the right hand of God, ¹³from that time waiting ^jtill His enemies are made His footstool. ¹⁴For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being ⁴sanctified.

¹⁵But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before,

^16k“This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,” ¹⁷then He adds, ^l“Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” ¹⁸Now where there is ⁵remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.

Hold Fast Your Confession

¹⁹Therefore, brethren, having ^mboldness ⁶to enter ⁿthe Holiest by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰by a new and ^oliving way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, ²¹and having a High Priest over the house of God, ²²let us ^pdraw near with a true heart ^qin full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. ²³Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for ^rHe who promised is faithful. ²⁴And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, ^25snot forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and ^tso much the more as you see ^uthe Day approaching.

The Just Live by Faith

²⁶For ^vif we sin willfully ^wafter we have received the knowledge of the truth, there ^xno longer remains a sacrifice for sins, ²⁷but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and ^yfiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. ²⁸Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three ^zwitnesses. ^29aOf how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, ^bcounted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, ^cand insulted the Spirit of grace? ³⁰For we know Him who said, ^d“Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” ⁷says the Lord. And again, ^e“The Lord will judge His people.” ^31fIt is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

³²But ^grecall the former days in which, after you were ⁸illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings: ³³partly while you were made ^ha spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while ⁱyou became companions of those who were so treated; ³⁴for you had compassion on ⁹me ^jin my chains, and ^kjoyfully accepted the plundering of your ¹goods, knowing that ^lyou have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves ²in heaven. ³⁵Therefore do not cast away your confidence, ^mwhich has great reward. ³⁶ⁿFor you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, ^oyou may receive the promise:

³⁷“For ^pyet a little while,

And ^qHe ³who is coming will come and will not ⁴tarry.

³⁸Now ^rthe ⁵just shall live by faith;

But if anyone draws back,

My soul has no pleasure in him.”

³⁹But we are not of those ^swho draw back to ⁶perdition, but of those who ^tbelieve to the saving of the soul.