The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Hebrews 10
1 For the law, having a shadow of the
good to come, not the very image of the
things, can never with the same sacrifices
year by year, which they offer continually,
make perfect those who draw near.
2 Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be
offered, because the worshipers, having
been once cleansed, would have had no
more consciousness of sins?
3 But in those sacrifices there is a yearly
reminder of sins.
4 For it is impossible that the blood of
bulls and goats should take away sins.
5 Therefore when he comes into the
world, he says, “You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering,
but you prepared a body for me.
6 You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings
and sacrifices for sin.
7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in
the scroll of the book it is written of
me) to do your will, O God.’ ”*
8 Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings
and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices
for sinyoudidn’tdesire, neitherhad
pleasure in them” (those which are offered
according to the law),
9 then he has said, “Behold, I have come
to do your will.” He takes away the first,
that he may establish the second,
10 by which will we have been sanctified
through the offering of the body of Jesus
Christ once for all.
11 Every priest indeed stands day by day
serving and offering often the same
sacrifices, which can never take away sins,
12 but he, when he had offered one
sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right
hand of God,
13 from that time waiting until his
enemies are made the footstool of his feet.
14 For by one offering he has perfected
forever those who are being sanctified.
15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for
after saying,
16 “This is the covenant that I will make
with them after those days,” says the Lord,
“I will put my laws on their heart,
I will also write them on their mind;”*
then he says,
17 “I will remember their sins and their
iniquities no more.”*
18 Now where remission of these is,there
is no more offering for sin.
19 Having therefore, brothers, boldness
to enter into the holy place by the blood of
Jesus,
20 by the way which he dedicated for us,
a new and living way,through the veil,that
is to say, his flesh,
21 and having a great priest over God’s
house,
22 let’s draw near with a true heart in
fullness of faith, having our hearts
sprinkled from an evil conscience and having
our body washed with pure water,
23 let’s hold fast the confession of our
hope without wavering; for he who
promised is faithful.
24 Let’s consider how to provoke one
another to love and good works,
25 not forsaking our own assembling
together, as the custom of some is, but
exhorting one another, and so much the
more as you see the Day approaching.
26 For if we sin willfully after we have
received the knowledge of the truth, there
remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
27 but a certain fearful expectation of
judgment, and a fierceness of fire which
will devour the adversaries.
28 A man who disregards Moses’ law dies
without compassion on the word of two or
three witnesses.
29 How much worse punishment do you
think he will be judged worthy of who has
trodden under foot the Son of God, and
has counted the blood ofthe covenant with
which he was sanctified an unholy thing,
and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him who said,
“Vengeance belongs to me. I will repay,”
says the Lord.* 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 struggle with sufferings:
33 partly, being exposed to both reproaches
and oppressions, and partly, becoming
partakers with those who were
treated so.
34 For you both had compassion on me in
my chains and joyfully accepted the
plundering of your possessions, knowing that
you have for yourselves a better
possession and an enduring one in the heavens.
35 Therefore don’t throw away your
boldness, which has a great reward.
36 For you need endurance so that,
having done the will of God, you may receive
the promise.
37 “In a very little while,
he who comes will come and will not
wait.
38 But the righteous one will live by faith.
If he shrinks back, my soul has no
pleasure in him.”*
39 But we are not of those who shrink
back to destruction, but of those who have
faith to the saving of the soul.