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Hebrews 10 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

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Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:1 - The old system under the law of Moses was only a shadow, a dim preview of the good things to come, not the good things themselves. The sacrifices under that system were repeated again and again, year after year, but they were never able to provide perfect cleansing for those who came to worship.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:2 - If they could have provided perfect cleansing, the sacrifices would have stopped, for the worshipers would have been purified once for all time, and their feelings of guilt would have disappeared.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:3

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:3 - But instead, those sacrifices actually reminded them of their sins year after year.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:4 - For it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
(cf. Psa 40:6–8 )

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:5 - That is why, when Christ[fn] came into the world, he said to God,
“You did not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings.
But you have given me a body to offer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:6 - You were not pleased with burnt offerings
or other offerings for sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:7 - Then I said, ‘Look, I have come to do your will, O God—
as is written about me in the Scriptures.’”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:8 - First, Christ said, “You did not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings or burnt offerings or other offerings for sin, nor were you pleased with them” (though they are required by the law of Moses).

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:9 - Then he said, “Look, I have come to do your will.” He cancels the first covenant in order to put the second into effect.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:10 - For God’s will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:11 - Under the old covenant, the priest stands and ministers before the altar day after day, offering the same sacrifices again and again, which can never take away sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:12 - But our High Priest offered himself to God as a single sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then he sat down in the place of honor at God’s right hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:13 - There he waits until his enemies are humbled and made a footstool under his feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:14 - For by that one offering he forever made perfect those who are being made holy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:15 - And the Holy Spirit also testifies that this is so. For he says,

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:16 - “This is the new covenant I will make
with my people on that day,[fn] says the LORD:
I will put my laws in their hearts,
and I will write them on their minds.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:17 - Then he says,
“I will never again remember
their sins and lawless deeds.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:18 - And when sins have been forgiven, there is no need to offer any more sacrifices.
A Call to Persevere

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:19 - And so, dear brothers and sisters,[fn] we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:20 - By his death,[fn] Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:21

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:21 - And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God’s house,

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:22 - let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ’s blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:23

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:23 - Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:24

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:24 - Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:25

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:25 - And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:26

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:26 - Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:27

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:27 - There is only the terrible expectation of God’s judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:28

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:28 - For anyone who refused to obey the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:29 - Just think how much worse the punishment will be for those who have trampled on the Son of God, and have treated the blood of the covenant, which made us holy, as if it were common and unholy, and have insulted and disdained the Holy Spirit who brings God’s mercy to us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:30

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:30 - For we know the one who said,
“I will take revenge.
I will pay them back.”[fn] He also said,
“The LORD will judge his own people.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:31

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:31 - It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:32

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:32 - Think back on those early days when you first learned about Christ.[fn] Remember how you remained faithful even though it meant terrible suffering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:33

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:33 - Sometimes you were exposed to public ridicule and were beaten, and sometimes you helped others who were suffering the same things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:34

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:34 - You suffered along with those who were thrown into jail, and when all you owned was taken from you, you accepted it with joy. You knew there were better things waiting for you that will last forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:35

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:35 - So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you!

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:36

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:36 - Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God’s will. Then you will receive all that he has promised.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:37

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:37 - “For in just a little while,
the Coming One will come and not delay.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:38

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:38 - And my righteous ones will live by faith.[fn]
But I will take no pleasure in anyone who turns away.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 10:39

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:39 - But we are not like those who turn away from God to their own destruction. We are the faithful ones, whose souls will be saved.
See the NLT Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NLT Footnotes
Greek he; also in 10:8.
Ps 40:6-8 (Greek version).
Ps 40:6-8 (Greek version).
Ps 40:6-8 (Greek version).
Greek after those days.
Jer 31:33a.
Jer 31:34b.
Greek brothers.
Greek Through his flesh.
Deut 32:35.
Deut 32:36.
Greek when you were first enlightened.
Hab 2:3-4.
Or my righteous ones will live by their faithfulness; Greek reads my righteous one will live by faith.
Hab 2:3-4.
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