Hebrews 10

For the law has a shadow of the good things to come, not the actual image of those realities. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered continually year after year, make perfect those who draw near. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, once cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year, for it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Therefore, when he comes into the world, he says,
“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you took no pleasure. Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written of me in the scroll of the book—to do your will, O God.’” After saying above, “Sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you did not desire, nor did you take pleasure in them”—which are offered according to the law— he then said, “Here I am to do your will.” He takes away the first to establish the second. By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest stands daily at his service, repeatedly offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But he, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from then on until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet. For by one offering he has made perfect forever those who are being sanctified. The Holy Spirit also bears witness to us, for after saying, “This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts and write them on their minds,” he adds,
“And I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.” Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer an offering for sin. Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way he inaugurated for us through the curtain, that is, his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for the one who promised is faithful. And let us consider one another, to stir up love and good works, not abandoning our gathering together, as some have made a habit of doing, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the day approaching. For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire that will devour the adversaries. Anyone who has rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by the one who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, regarded the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified as profane, and insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know the one who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.” It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. But remember the former days, when, after being enlightened, you endured a great struggle with suffering, sometimes publicly exposed to insults and afflictions, and sometimes becoming companions of those who were treated that way. For you sympathized with the prisoners and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you yourselves have a better and lasting possession. Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you need endurance, so that after doing the will of God you may receive what was promised. For “In just a very little while, the one who is coming will come and will not delay. But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he draws back, my soul takes no pleasure in him.” But we are not among those who draw back to destruction, but among those who have faith for the preservation of the soul.

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