Hebrews 10:26–39

²⁶For we—wilfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth—no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice, ²⁷but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery zeal, about to devour the opposers; ²⁸any one who did set at nought a law of Moses, apart from mercies, by two or three witnesses, doth die, ²⁹of how much sorer punishment shall he be counted worthy who the Son of God did trample on, and the blood of the covenant did count a common thing, in which he was sanctified, and to the Spirit of the grace did despite? ³⁰for we have known Him who is saying, ‘Vengeance is Mine, I will recompense, saith the Lord;’ and again, ‘The Lord shall judge His people;’— ³¹fearful is the falling into the hands of a living God. ³²And call to your remembrance the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye did endure much conflict of sufferings, ³³partly both with reproaches and tribulations being made spectacles, and partly having become partners of those so living, ³⁴for also with my bonds ye sympathised, and the robbery of your goods with joy ye did receive, knowing that ye have in yourselves a better substance in the heavens, and an enduring one. ³⁵Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward, ³⁶for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise, ³⁷for yet a very very little, He who is coming will come, and will not tarry; ³⁸and ‘the righteous by faith shall live,’ and ‘if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,’ ³⁹and we are not of those drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul.

Chapter 11