Chapter 10
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| 10: • 1 For the law, having an outline but not the image of the good things coming [inside of Christ], with the same sacrifices offered each year continually, is never able to perfect and make complete those who draw near. 2 For would they not have ceased being offered? For the worshippers, having been cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins. • 3 But these sacrifices are bringing sins into mind every year [as a fruitless struggle against sin]. 4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and of goats to take away sins. • 5 Therefore, coming into the world, He says, “Sacrifice and offering you have not desired, but a body you have fitted together for me. 6 You have not thought well of burnt offerings and offerings for sin.” 7 Then I said, “Behold, I have come, in the scroll of the book it is written of me, to do that which You desire, O God” (Psalm 40:6-8). 8 Previously saying, “Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offerings for sin You have not wanted, nor have You been pleased with those things offered according to the law,” 9 then He said, “Behold I have come to do what you desire.” Thus, He takes away the first, that He might establish the second. • 10 By God’s desire, we are already made devoted [belonging only to God] through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And indeed, every priest stands every day ministering, and repeatedly offering the same sacrifices which are never able to take away sins. • 12 In complete contrast, this One, having offered one unlimited sacrifice for sins [u), sat down inside of the right hand of God [v], • 13 from now on waiting expectantly for His enemies to be made a footstool for His feet. • 14 For by one offering, He has perfected those who are continuously being made devoted by God. • 15 Moreover the Devoted Spirit bears witness to us when having said before: 16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them, after those days, says the Lord; I will put My laws upon their hearts and upon their mind I will inscribe them, 17 and their sins and their lawless acts, I will not hold in mind anymore” (Jeremiah 31:33-34). 18 Where there is forgiveness and full release, there is no longer any offering for sin. • 19 Therefore brethren, having already a free and bold proclamation of entrance into the Most Devoted • inside the blood of Jesus 20 consecrating for us a newly sacrificed as well as a living way through the veil, that is, through His flesh; • 21 and having a vast High Priest upon the house of God, • 22 let us approach [everything inside the Most Devoted] with a true heart, in full assurance of faith; • having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil consciousness; and having our bodies washed with pure water. • 23 Let us hold fast and take possession of the same speaking [speaking together] of our hope unwavering; for faithful indeed is the One who promised. • 24 And let us think about one another to stimulate love and good works; 25 not abandoning the assembling of ourselves together, as is the practice with some; but encouraging one another and by so much more as you perceive the day coming near. • 26 Indeed, if we willingly continue in [the consciousness of] sins [that is, refusing to know our entrance into the Most Devoted}, after we have received the acknowledgement of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice [inside our consciousness] 27 but a certain fear and expectation of judgment, a zealous fire that is ready to eat up that which opposes. 28 Anyone who ignores the law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 Of how much worse penalty, do you think, will he be worthy who has disregarded the Son of God and placed no value on the blood of the covenant in which he was made devoted [utterly devoted to God] and treated contemptuously the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know Him who said, “Full vindication is mine, I will give back in like manner,” and again, “the Lord will judge His people” (Deuteronomy 32:35-36). 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. [a] 32 Remember, as well, the former days in which you were brought into the light, having endured a great conflict of sufferings, 33 both in being made a spectacle by false accusations as well as in great pressures and in sharing together with others passing through the same things. 34 Indeed, you shared suffering together with those bound, and you accepted with joy the plundering of your outward existence, knowing you yourselves already possess a more excellent and abiding existence. • 35 Therefore, do not throw away your boldness of freedom [b), which has a great reward. 36 Indeed, you have need of endurance, so that, having done what God desires [c] you might receive the promise. 37 “Yet indeed, by very little the vision coming [see Habakkuk 2] will arrive without delay. 38 Moreover, “My righteous ones live out from faith; but if anyone might draw back, My soul delights not in him” (Habakkuk 2:3-4). • 39 We, however, are not of those drawing back into loss [d], but we are of faith into taking ownership and full possession of our soul [e]. |
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