Hebrews 10 :: New English Translation (NET)

One Sacrifice of Christ Is Sufficient

Heb 10:1For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.

Heb 10:2

Heb 10:2For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once for all and so have no further consciousness of sin?

Heb 10:3

Heb 10:3But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year.

Heb 10:4

Heb 10:4For the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sins.

(cf. Psa 40:6–8 )

Heb 10:5

Heb 10:5So when he came into the world, he said, "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.

Heb 10:6

Heb 10:6"Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no delight in.

Heb 10:7

Heb 10:7"Then I said, 'Here I am: I have come - it is written of me in the scroll of the book - to do your will, O God.'"

Heb 10:8

Heb 10:8When he says above, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them" (which are offered according to the law),

Heb 10:9

Heb 10:9then he says, "Here I am: I have come to do your will." He does away with the first to establish the second.

Heb 10:10

Heb 10:10By his will we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Heb 10:11

Heb 10:11And every priest stands day after day serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again - sacrifices that can never take away sins.

Heb 10:12

Heb 10:12But when this priest had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right hand of God,

Heb 10:13

Heb 10:13where he is now waiting until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet.

Heb 10:14

Heb 10:14For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy.

Heb 10:15

Heb 10:15And the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us, for after saying,

Heb 10:16

Heb 10:16"This is the covenant that I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws on their hearts and I will inscribe them on their minds,"

Heb 10:17

Heb 10:17then he says, "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no longer."

Heb 10:18

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

A New and Living Way

Heb 10:19

Heb 10:19Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,

Heb 10:20

Heb 10:20by the fresh and living way that he inaugurated 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 sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings, because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.

Heb 10:23

Heb 10:23And let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we confess, for the one who made the promise is trustworthy.

Heb 10:24

Heb 10:24And let us take thought of how to spur one another on to love and good works,

Heb 10:25

Heb 10:25not abandoning our own meetings, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and even more so because you see the day drawing near.

Christ or Judgment

Heb 10:26

Heb 10:26For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us,

Heb 10:27

Heb 10:27but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume God's enemies.

Heb 10:28

Heb 10:28Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Heb 10:29

Heb 10:29How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for the Son of God, and profanes the blood of the covenant that made him holy, and insults the Spirit of grace?

Heb 10:30

Heb 10:30For we know the one who said, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge his people."

Heb 10:31

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

Heb 10:32

Heb 10:32But remember the former days when you endured a harsh conflict of suffering after you were enlightened.

Heb 10:33

Heb 10:33At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and afflictions, and at other times you came to share with others who were treated in that way.

Heb 10:34

Heb 10:34For in fact you shared the sufferings of those in prison, and you accepted the confiscation of your belongings with joy, because you knew that you certainly had a better and lasting possession.

Heb 10:35

Heb 10:35So do not throw away your confidence, because it has great reward.

Heb 10:36

Heb 10:36For you need endurance in order to do God's will and so receive what is promised.

Heb 10:37

Heb 10:37For just a little longer and he who is coming will arrive and not delay.

Heb 10:38

Heb 10:38But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, I take no pleasure in him.

Heb 10:39

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

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