1 For the law, having a ashadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, bcan never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect.
2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once1 purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins.
3 But in those sacrificesthereis a reminder of sins every year.
4 For aitis not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.
Christ’s Death Fulfills God’s Will
5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: a“Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You have prepared for Me.
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure.
7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come— In the volume of the book it is written of Me— To do Your will, O God.’ ”
8 Previously saying, “Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure inthem” (which are offered according to the law),
9 then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will,1 O God.” He takes away the first that He may establish the second.
10aBy that will we have been1 sanctified bthrough the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once forall.
Christ’s Death Perfects the Sanctified
11 And every priest stands aministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
12aBut this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down bat the right hand of God,
13 from that time waiting atill His enemies are made His footstool.
14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being1 sanctified.
15 But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before,
16a“This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,”
17thenHeadds,a“Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”
18 Now where there is1 remission of these, thereis no longer an offering for sin.
Hold Fast Your Confession
19 Therefore, brethren, having aboldness to enter bthe Holiest by the blood of Jesus,
20 by a new and aliving way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh,
21 and having a High Priest over the house of God,
22 let us adraw near with a true heart bin full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for aHe who promised is faithful.
24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works,
25anot forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting oneanother, and bso much the more as you see cthe Day approaching.
The Just Live by Faith
26 For aif we sin willfully bafter we have received the knowledge of the truth, there cno longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and afiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.
28 Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on thetestimonyof two or three awitnesses.
29aOf how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, bcounted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, cand insulted the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know Him who said, a“Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,”1 says the Lord. And again, b“The Lord will judge His people.”
31aIt is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 But arecall the former days in which, after you were1 illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings:
33 partly while you were made aa spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while byou became companions of those who were so treated;
34 for you had compassion on1 me ain my chains, and bjoyfully accepted the plundering of your2 goods, knowing that cyou have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves3 in heaven.
35 Therefore do not cast away your confidence, awhich has great reward.
36aFor you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, byou may receive the promise:
37 “For ayet a little while, AndbHe who is coming will come and will not2 tarry.
38 Now athe just shall live by faith; But if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him.”
39 But we are not of those awho draw back to perdition, but of those who bbelieve to the saving of the soul.
Would they not have ceased to be offered? - Had they made an effectual reconciliation for the sins of the world, and contained in their once offering a plenitude of permanent merit, they would have ceased to be offered, at least in reference to any individual who had once offered them; because, in such a case, his conscience would be satisfied that its guilt had been taken away. But no Jew pretended to believe that even the annual atonement cancelled his sin before God; yet he continued to make his offerings, the law of God having so enjoined, because these sacrifices pointed out that which was to come. They were offered, therefore, not in consideration of their own efficacy, but as referring to Christ; See on Hebrews 9:9 (note).
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