Hebrews 10 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All

Heb 10:1For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.

Heb 10:2

Heb 10:2Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?

Heb 10:3

Heb 10:3But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.

Heb 10:4

Heb 10:4For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

(cf. Psa 40:6–8 )

Heb 10:5

Heb 10:5Consequently, when Christ[fn] came into the world, he said,
“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,
but a body have you prepared for me;

Heb 10:6

Heb 10:6in burnt offerings and sin offerings
you have taken no pleasure.

Heb 10:7

Heb 10:7Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,
as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”

Heb 10:8

Heb 10:8When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law),

Heb 10:9

Heb 10:9then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second.

Heb 10:10

Heb 10:10And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Heb 10:11

Heb 10:11And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

Heb 10:12

Heb 10:12But when Christ[fn] had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,

Heb 10:13

Heb 10:13waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet.

Heb 10:14

Heb 10:14For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

Heb 10:15

Heb 10:15And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,

Heb 10:16

Heb 10:16“This is the covenant that I will make with them
after those days, declares the Lord:
I will put my laws on their hearts,
and write them on their minds,”

Heb 10:17

Heb 10:17then he adds,
“I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”

Heb 10:18

Heb 10:18Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.

The Full Assurance of Faith

Heb 10:19

Heb 10:19Therefore, brothers,[fn] since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus,

Heb 10:20

Heb 10:20by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,

Heb 10:21

Heb 10:21and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

Heb 10:22

Heb 10:22let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Heb 10:23

Heb 10:23Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.

Heb 10:24

Heb 10:24And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

Heb 10:25

Heb 10:25not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Heb 10:26

Heb 10:26For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

Heb 10:27

Heb 10:27but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.

Heb 10:28

Heb 10:28Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses.

Heb 10:29

Heb 10:29How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?

Heb 10:30

Heb 10:30For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.”

Heb 10:31

Heb 10:31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Heb 10:32

Heb 10:32But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,

Heb 10:33

Heb 10:33sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated.

Heb 10:34

Heb 10:34For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.

Heb 10:35

Heb 10:35Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

Heb 10:36

Heb 10:36For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.

Heb 10:37

Heb 10:37For,
“Yet a little while,
and the coming one will come and will not delay;

Heb 10:38

Heb 10:38but my righteous one shall live by faith,
and if he shrinks back,
my soul has no pleasure in him.”

Heb 10:39

Heb 10:39But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

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(10:5)

Greek he

(10:12)

Greek this one

(10:19)

Or brothers and sisters

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