Hebrews / Christ’s Perfect Sacrifice and Call to Persevere

Christ’s Perfect Sacrifice and Call to Persevere

Hebrews 10:1-39

Chapter 10

¹ For it is a shadow of the good things coming, not the image itself of the things. And according to year by the same sacrifices which they offer continually, it can never perfect the ones approaching. ² since they would not have ceased offering sacrifices if the worshippers, once cleansed, would no longer have any conscience of sins. ³ but in them there is a remembrance of sins every year, ⁴ For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. ⁵ Therefore, when he comes into the world, he says: "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me." ⁶ Whole burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not approve. ⁷ Then I said, "Behold, I have come. In the scroll of the book it is written about me to do your will, O God." ⁸ Above saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin offerings you neither willed nor took pleasure in," which are offered according to the Torah, ⁹ then he said: "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first in order to establish the second. ¹⁰ by which we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. ¹¹ And every priest indeed stands daily ministering and offering the same sacrifices many times, which are never able to take away sins. ¹² But this one, having offered one sacrifice for sins once for all, sat down at the right hand of God. ¹³ the rest waiting until his enemies should be placed as a footstool for his feet, ¹⁴ For by one sacrifice he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. ¹⁵ And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after having said, ¹⁶ This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord, giving my laws on their hearts, and on their minds I will write them. ¹⁷ And their sins and their lawless acts I will remember no more. ¹⁸ But where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer an offering for sin. ¹⁹ Therefore, brothers, having boldness to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ which he inaugurated for us as a new and living way through the veil, that is, his flesh— ²¹ and a great high priest over the house of God, ²² let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse them from an evil conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water ²³ Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for the one who promised is faithful. ²⁴ and let us consider one another to provoke love and good works, ²⁵ not forsaking the assembling of yourselves together, as is the custom of some, but exhorting one another, and all the more as you see the day drawing near. ²⁶ For if we willfully sin after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no longer is a sacrifice left for sins, ²⁷ but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a zeal of fire that will devour the adversaries. ²⁸ Rejecting the law of Moses: without mercy, on the testimony of two or three witnesses he dies. ²⁹ By how much do you think he will be deemed worthy of worse punishment—the one who has trampled the Son of God, and has considered the blood of the covenant common, by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? ³⁰ For we know the one who said, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge his people." ³¹ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. ³² But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great athletic struggle amid sufferings. ³³ this on the one hand by reproaches and tribulations, being publicly exposed, this on the other hand having become partners of those thus conducting themselves. ³⁴ For you also sympathized with the prisoners, and you welcomed the plundering of your possessions with joy, knowing that you have for yourselves a better and abiding possession. ³⁵ Therefore do not throw away your boldness, which has great reward. ³⁶ For you have need of endurance, in order that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise. ³⁷ For yet a little while, a very little while, the one coming will come and will not delay. ³⁸ But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul takes no pleasure in him. ³⁹ But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of faith to the preservation of the soul.