Hebrews 10
10Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered year after year, make perfect those who approach.G1063G3551G2192G4639G18G3195G3756G846G1504G4229G1410G3763G846G2378G3739G4374G2596G1763G1519G1336G5048G4334G50482Otherwise, would they not have ceased being offered, since the worshipers, cleansed once for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sin?G1893G302G3756G3973G4374G1223G3000G530G2508G2192G3367G2089G4893G2663But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sin year after year.G235G1722G846G364G266G2596G17634For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.G1063G102G129G5022G2532G5131G851G2665Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, "Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body you have prepared for me;G1352G1525G1519G2889G3004G2378G2532G4376G2309G3756G1161G4983G2675G34276in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure.G3646G2532G4012G266G2106G3756G21067Then I said, 'See, God, I have come to do your will, O God' (in the scroll of the book it is written of me)."G5119G2036G2400G2240G1722G2777G975G1125G4012G1700G4160G4675G2307G23168When he said above, "You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings" (these are offered according to the law),G511G3004G3754G2378G2532G4376G2532G3646G2532G4012G266G2309G3756G3761G2106G3748G4374G2596G35519then he added, "See, I have come to do your will." He abolishes the first in order to establish the second.G5119G2046G2400G2240G4160G4675G2307G2316G337G4413G2443G2476G120810And it is by God's will that we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.G1722G3739G2307G2070G37G1223G4376G4983G2424G5547G217811And every priest stands day after day at his service, offering again and again the same sacrifices that can never take away sins.G2532G3303G3956G2409G2476G2596G2250G3008G2532G4374G4178G846G2378G3748G1410G3763G4014G26612But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, "he sat down at the right hand of God,"G1161G846G4374G3391G2378G5228G266G1519G1336G2523G1722G1188G231613and since then has been waiting "until his enemies would be made a footstool for his feet."G3063G1551G2193G846G2190G5087G846G5286G422814For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.G1063G3391G4376G5048G1519G1336G3715And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,G1161G40G4151G2532G3140G2254G1063G3326G428016"This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds,"G3778G1242G3739G1303G4314G846G3326G1565G2250G3004G2962G1325G3450G3551G1909G846G2588G2532G1909G846G1271G1924G84617he also adds, "I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more."G2532G846G266G2532G458G846G3415G3364G208918Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.G1161G3699G859G5130G3765G4376G4012G26619Therefore, my friends, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,G2192G3767G80G3954G1519G1529G39G1722G129G242420by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain (that is, through his flesh),G4372G2532G2198G3598G3739G1457G2254G1223G2665G5123G846G456121and since we have a great priest over the house of God,G2532G3173G2409G1909G3624G231622let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.G4334G3326G228G2588G1722G4136G4102G4472G2588G4472G575G4190G4893G2532G4983G3068G2513G520423Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who has promised is faithful.G2722G3671G1680G186G1063G4103G186124And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds,G2532G2657G240G1519G3948G26G2532G2570G204125not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.G3361G1459G1997G1438G1997G2531G1485G5100G235G3870G2532G5118G3123G3745G991G2250G144826For if we willfully persist in sin after having received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,G1063G2257G264G1596G3326G2983G1922G225G620G3765G2378G4012G26627but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.G1161G5100G5398G1561G2920G2532G4442G2205G3195G2068G522728Anyone who has violated the law of Moses dies without mercy "on the testimony of two or three witnesses."G5100G114G3475G3551G599G5565G3628G1909G1417G2228G5140G314429How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by those who have spurned the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant by which they were sanctified, and outraged the Spirit of grace?G4214G5501G5098G1380G515G3588G2662G5207G2316G2532G2233G129G1242G3739G1722G37G2839G2532G1796G4151G548530For we know the one who said, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge his people."G1063G1492G2036G1557G1698G1473G467G3004G2962G2532G3825G2962G2919G846G299231It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.G5398G1706G1519G5495G2198G231632But recall those earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,G1161G363G4386G2250G1722G3739G5461G5278G4183G119G380433sometimes being publicly exposed to abuse and persecution, and sometimes being partners with those so treated.G5124G3303G2301G5037G3680G2532G2347G1161G5124G1096G2844G390G3779G39034For you had compassion for those who were in prison, and you cheerfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you yourselves possessed something better and more lasting.G2532G1063G4834G3450G1199G2532G4327G3326G5479G724G5216G5224G1097G1722G1438G2192G1722G3772G2909G2532G3306G522335Do not, therefore, abandon that confidence of yours; it brings a great reward.G577G3361G577G3767G5216G3954G3748G2192G3173G340536For you need endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.G1063G2192G5532G5281G2443G4160G2307G2316G2865G186037For yet "in a very little while, the one who is coming will come and will not delay;G1063G2089G3397G3745G3745G2064G2240G2532G5549G3756G554938but my righteous one will live by faith. My soul takes no pleasure in anyone who shrinks back."G1161G1342G2198G1537G4102G2532G1437G5288G3450G5590G2106G3756G2106G1722G84639But we are not among those who shrink back and so are lost, but among those who have faith and so are saved.G1161G2249G2070G3756G5289G1519G684G235G4102G1519G4047G5590
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