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Hebrews 10 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

One Sacrifice of Christ Is Sufficient

Heb 10:1

For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the [fn]form of those things itself, [fn]can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually every year, make those who approach perfect.

Heb 10:2Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins?
Heb 10:3But in [fn]those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.
Heb 10:4For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
(cf. Psa 40:6–8 )
Heb 10:5Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says,

“YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED SACRIFICE AND OFFERING,

BUT YOU HAVE PREPARED A BODY FOR ME;

Heb 10:6

YOU HAVE NOT TAKEN PLEASURE IN WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND OFFERINGS FOR SIN.

Heb 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.’”

Heb 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),

Heb 10:9then He [fn]said, “BEHOLD, I HAVE COME TO DO YOUR WILL.” He takes away the first in order to establish the second.
Heb 10:10By [fn]this will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time.
Heb 10:11

Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;

Heb 10:12but He, having offered one sacrifice for [fn]sins for all time, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD,
Heb 10:13waiting from that time onward UNTIL HIS ENEMIES ARE MADE A FOOTSTOOL FOR HIS FEET.
Heb 10:14For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are [fn]sanctified.
Heb 10:15And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying,
Heb 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,

Heb 10:17

“AND THEIR SINS AND THEIR LAWLESS DEEDS

I WILL NO LONGER REMEMBER.”

Heb 10:18

Now where there is forgiveness of these things, an offering for sin is no longer required.

A New and Living Way

Heb 10:19

Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus,

Heb 10:20by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, through His flesh,
Heb 10:21and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
Heb 10:22let’s approach God with a [fn]sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Heb 10:23Let’s hold firmly to the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;
Heb 10:24and let’s consider how to [fn]encourage one another in love and good deeds,
Heb 10:25not 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.

Christ or Judgment

Heb 10:26

For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

Heb 10:27but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES.
Heb 10:28Anyone who has ignored the Law of Moses is put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
Heb 10:29How 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?
Heb 10:30For we know Him who said, “VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY.” And again, “THE LORD WILL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE.”
Heb 10:31It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Heb 10:32

But remember the former days, [fn]when, after being enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings,

Heb 10:33partly by being made a public spectacle through insults and distress, and partly by becoming [fn]companions with those who were so treated.
Heb 10:34For 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.
Heb 10:35Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
Heb 10:36For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive [fn]what was promised.
Heb 10:37

FOR YET IN A VERY LITTLE WHILE,

HE WHO IS COMING WILL COME, AND WILL NOT DELAY.

Heb 10:38

BUT MY RIGHTEOUS ONE WILL LIVE BY FAITH;

AND IF HE SHRINKS BACK, MY SOUL HAS NO PLEASURE IN HIM.

Heb 10:39

But [fn]we are not among those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith for the safekeeping of the soul.

NASB20 Footnotes
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One early ms they can
Lit them there is
Lit has said
Lit which
Or sins, forever sat down
Or being sanctified
Lit true
Or stir up
Lit in which
Or partners
Lit the promise
Lit we are not of shrinking back...but of faith
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