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Hebrews 10

¹For the law had but a shadow of the coming good things, and not their real essence. For this reason, the same sacrifices that they offered were never able to completely perfect those who brought them. ²Otherwise would they not have ceased bringing them, unless the worshipers never had their consciences completely purified of sins? ³But in the same ones there was a remembrance of sin each year, ⁴since it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to carry sin away.

⁵Therefore when he is coming into the world he says:

"Sacrifice and offering you do not desire,
But you have prepared a body for me. ⁶Whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sins-
You will not take pleasure in them. ⁷Then I said:
Behold I come,
In the scroll of the book it is written about me,
To do you will, O God." [Psalm 40:6-8]

⁸Above, he says "sacrifices and offerings" and "whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sins you did not desire, nor did you take pleasure in" (which were offered according to the law). ⁹Then he says, "Behold, I came to do your will." He carries away the first so that the second can stand. ¹⁰Because of this desire [of God] we are made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all. ¹¹Now every priest stands day by day offering these various sacrifices which can never carry sin away. ¹²Christ, on the other hand, has offered one sacrifice, perfectly good, and sat down at the right hand of God ¹³The only thing left is a time of waiting until his enemies are made footstool for his feet. ¹⁴For by means of one sacrifice he has made the ones who are being made holy completely perfect.

¹⁵And the Holy Spirit testifies to us, for after that he says:

¹⁶For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel:
After those days, says the Lord,
I will put my laws in their hearts,
And will inscribe them upon their minds. ¹⁷Because their deeds of unrighteousness and their sins
I will not remember any more. [Jeremiah 31:33,34] ¹⁸And where there is forgiveness of these sins, there is no more offering for sins.

¹⁹Now then, brethren, we have boldness to go into the holiest place through the blood of Jesus, ²⁰which he placed as a living way through the curtain, not previously available, which is his flesh. ²¹Jesus is also a great priest over the household of God. ²²So let's come with true hearts and full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from bad conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. ²³Let us hold firmly the confession of our hope without wavering, for the one who promised is faithful. ²⁴And let us pay attention to each other, so as to stir up of love and good works, ²⁵not neglecting our meetings, as is the practice of some, but encouraging, and doing this even more as we see the day approaching.

²⁶For if some of us continue sinning willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there is no more sacrifice left for sin, ²⁷but only the fearful expectation of judgment and an ardently burning fire about to consume his enemies. ²⁸If someone broke the law of Moses, he was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. ²⁹How much worse punishment do you think someone deserves who despises the Son of God and counts the blood of the covenant by which he was made holy as common, and who outrages the spirit of grace? ³⁰For we know who said:

"Vengeance is mine, I will repay." [Deuteronomy 32:35] and again:

"The Lord will judge his people." [Deuteronomy 32:36] ³¹It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God! ³²But remember the earlier days, in which you were enlightened, how with a hard struggle you endured sufferings, ³³some being exposes to public tribulation and some being made partners of those who were persecuted. ³⁴And you have suffered together with those who were bound, and you have endured the seizure of your goods with joy, knowing that you have better possessions, yes, permanent ones. ³⁵Don't throw away your boldness, which has great reward, ³⁶for you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God you might receive the promise.

³⁷"Yet in a very little while, the one who is coming will come and will not delay. ³⁸But my righteous one will live by faith,
and if he shrinks back,
My soul will have no pleasure in him." [Habakkuk 2:3,4] ³⁹But we are not of timidity leading to destruction, but of faith, leading to obtaining life.

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