1 Animal Sacrifices Insufficient For the law, having a Heb. 8:5 shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, Heb. 7:19; 9:9 can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect.
2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins.
3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.
4 For Mic. 6:6, 7 it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.
5 Christ’s Death Fulfills God’s Will Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: Ps. 40:6–8 “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You have prepared for Me.
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure.
7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come— In the volume of the book it is written of Me— To do Your will, O God.’ ”
8 Previously 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),
9 then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.” He takes away the first that He may establish the second.
10 John 17:19; (Eph. 5:26; Heb. 2:11; 10:14, 29; 13:12) By that will we have been sanctified (Heb. 9:12) through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 Christ’s Death Perfects the Sanctified And every priest stands Num. 28:3 ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
12 Col. 3:1; Heb. 1:3 But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down Ps. 110:1 at the right hand of God,
13 from that time waiting Ps. 110:1; Heb. 1:13 till His enemies are made His footstool.
14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
15 But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before,
16 Jer. 31:33, 34; Heb. 8:10 “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,”
17 then He adds, Jer. 31:34 “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”
18 Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.
19 Hold Fast Your Confession Therefore, brethren, having (Eph. 2:18); Heb. 4:16 boldness to enter Heb. 9:8, 12 the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,
20 by a new and John 14:6; (Heb. 7:24, 25) living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh,
21 and having a High Priest over the house of God,
22 let us Heb. 7:19; 10:1 draw near with a true heart Eph. 3:12 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 1 Cor. 1:9; 10:13;1 Thess. 5:24; Heb. 11:11 He who promised is faithful.
24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works,
25 Acts 2:42 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and Rom. 13:11 so much the more as you see Phil. 4:5 the Day approaching.
26 The Just Live by Faith For Num. 15:30 if we sin willfully 2 Pet. 2:20 after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there Heb. 6:6 no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and Zeph. 1:18 fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.
28 Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three Deut. 17:2–6; 19:15; Matt. 18:16; Heb. 2:2 witnesses.
29 (Heb. 2:3) Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, 1 Cor. 11:29 counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, (Matt. 12:31) and insulted the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know Him who said, Deut. 32:35; Rom. 12:19 “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. And again, Deut. 32:36 “The Lord will judge His people.”
31 (Luke 12:5) It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 But Gal. 3:4; Heb. 6:9, 10 recall the former days in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings:
33 partly while you were made 1 Cor. 4:9; Heb. 12:4 a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while Phil. 1:7 you became companions of those who were so treated;
34 for you had compassion on me 2 Tim. 1:16 in my chains, and Matt. 5:12 joyfully accepted the plundering of your goods, knowing that Matt. 6:20 you have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves in heaven.
35 Therefore do not cast away your confidence, Matt. 5:12 which has great reward.
36 Luke 21:19; Heb. 12:1 For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, (Col. 3:24) you may receive the promise:
37 “For Luke 18:8 yet a little while, And Hab. 2:3, 4; Heb. 10:25; Rev. 22:20 He who is coming will come and will not tarry.
38 Now Hab. 2:3, 4; Rom. 1:17; Gal. 3:11 the just shall live by faith; But if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him.”
39 But we are not of those 2 Pet. 2:20 who draw back to perdition, but of those who Acts 16:31 believe to the saving of the soul.