10:1 For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the ①form of those things itself, ②can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually every year, make those who approach perfect.
▷ ①Lit image ②One early ms they can
10:2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins?
10:3 But in ①those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.
▷ ①Lit them there is
10:4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
10:5 Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says,
“YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED SACRIFICE AND OFFERING,
BUT YOU HAVE PREPARED A BODY FOR ME;
10:6 YOU HAVE NOT TAKEN PLEASURE IN WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND offerings for sin.
10:7 THEN I SAID, ‘BEHOLD, I HAVE COME
(IT IS WRITTEN OF ME IN THE SCROLL OF THE BOOK)
TO DO YOUR WILL, O GOD.’ ”
10:8 After saying above, “SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS AND WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND offerings for sin YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, NOR HAVE YOU TAKEN PLEASURE in them” (which are offered according to the Law),
10:9 then He ①said, “BEHOLD, I HAVE COME TO DO YOUR WILL.” He takes away the first in order to establish the second.
▷ ①Lit has said
10:10 By ①this will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time.
▷ ①Lit which
10:11 Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;
10:12 but He, having offered one sacrifice for ①sins for all time, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD,
▷ ①Or sins, forever sat down
10:13 waiting from that time onward UNTIL HIS ENEMIES ARE MADE A FOOTSTOOL FOR HIS FEET.
10:14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are ①sanctified.
▷ ①Or being sanctified
10:15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying,
10:16 “THIS IS THE COVENANT WHICH I WILL MAKE WITH THEM
AFTER THOSE DAYS, DECLARES THE LORD:
I WILL PUT MY LAWS UPON THEIR HEARTS,
AND WRITE THEM ON THEIR MIND,” He then says,
10:17 “AND THEIR SINS AND THEIR LAWLESS DEEDS
I WILL NO LONGER REMEMBER.”
10:18 Now where there is forgiveness of these things, an offering for sin is no longer required.
10:19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
10:20 by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, through His flesh,
10:21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
10:22 let’s approach God with a ①sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
▷ ①Lit true
10:23 Let’s hold firmly to the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;
10:24 and let’s consider how to ①encourage one another in love and good deeds,
▷ ①Or stir up
10:25 not abandoning our own meeting together, as is the habit of some people, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.
10:26 For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
10:27 but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES.
10:28 Anyone who has ignored the Law of Moses is put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
10:29 How much more severe punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
10:30 For we know Him who said, “VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY.” And again, “THE LORD WILL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE.”
10:31 It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
10:32 But remember the former days, ①when, after being enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings,
▷ ①Lit in which
10:33 partly by being made a public spectacle through insults and distress, and partly by becoming ①companions with those who were so treated.
▷ ①Or partners
10:34 For you showed sympathy to the prisoners and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better and lasting possession.
10:35 Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
10:36 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive ①what was promised.
▷ ①Lit the promise
10:37 FOR YET IN A VERY LITTLE WHILE,
HE WHO IS COMING WILL COME, AND WILL NOT DELAY.
10:38 BUT MY RIGHTEOUS ONE WILL LIVE BY FAITH;
AND IF HE SHRINKS BACK, MY SOUL HAS NO PLEASURE IN HIM.
10:39 But ①we are not among those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith for the safekeeping of the soul.
▷ ①Lit we are not of shrinking back...but of faith