1 Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All For the Law, since it hasonlya shadow of the good things to comeandnot the very 10:1Lit image form of things, 10:1Two early mss they can can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near.
2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have consciousness of sins?
3 But in 10:3Lit them there is thosesacrificesthere is a reminder of sins year by 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 offeringYou have not desired,But a bodyYou have prepared forMe;
6 In burnt offerings andsacrificesfor sinYou have taken no pleasure.
7 “ThenIsaid, ‘Behold, Ihave come,In the scroll of the book it is written ofMe,To doYour will, O God.’ ”
8 After saying above, “Sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings andsacrificesfor sinYou have not desired,nor haveYou taken pleasurein them” (which are offered according to the Law),
9 then He 10:9 Lit has said said, “Behold, Ihave come to doYour will.” He takes away the first in order to establish the second.
10 By 10:10Lit which this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;
12 but He, having offered one sacrifice for 10:12Or sins, forever sat down sins for all time,sat down at the right hand ofGod,
13 waiting from that timeuntilHis enemies are put as a footstool forHis feet.
14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,
16 “This is the covenant thatIwill make with themAfter those days,says the 10:16In OT, Yahweh, cf. Jer 31:33 Lord:Iwill putMy laws upon their heart,And on their mindIwill write them,”He then says,
17 “And their sins and their lawless deedsIwill remember no more.”
18 Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longeranyoffering for sin.A New and Living Way
19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus,
20 by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh,
21 and sincewe havea great priest over the house of God,
22 let us draw near with a 10:22Lit true sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.
24 And let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds,
25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouragingone another, and all the more as you see the day drawing near.Warning Against Willful Sin
26 For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
27 but a terrifying expectation of judgment andthe fury of a fire which will consume the adversaries.
28 Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy bythe mouth oftwo or three witnesses.
29 How much worse punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has regarded as defiled the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know Him who said, “Vengeance isMine, Iwill repay.” And again, “The 10:30 In OT, Yahweh, cf. Deut 32:36 Lord will judgeHis people.”
31 It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 But remember the former days, 10:32Lit in which when, after being enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings,
33 partly by being made a public spectacle through reproaches and afflictions, and partly by becoming sharers with those who were so treated.
34 For you also showed sympathy to the prisoners and accepted with joy the seizure of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better and lasting possession.
35 Therefore, do not throw away that confidence of yours, which has a great reward.
36 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
37 For yet in a very little while,He who is coming will come,and will not delay.
38 ButMy righteous one shall live by faith,And if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him.
39 But 10:39Lit we are not of shrinking back...but of faith we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the 10:39Or possessing preserving of the soul.