Hebrews 10
10The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming--not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.G1063G3551G2192G4639G18G3195G3756G846G1504G4229G1410G3763G846G2378G3739G4374G2596G1763G1519G1336G5048G4334G50482If it could, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins.G1893G302G3756G3973G4374G1223G3000G530G2508G2192G3367G2089G4893G2663But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins,G235G1722G846G364G266G2596G17634because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.G1063G102G129G5022G2532G5131G851G2665Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me;G1352G1525G1519G2889G3004G2378G2532G4376G2309G3756G1161G4983G2675G34276with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased.G3646G2532G4012G266G2106G3756G21067Then I said, 'Here I am--it is written about me in the scroll--I have come to do your will, O God.'"G5119G2036G2400G2240G1722G2777G975G1125G4012G1700G4160G4675G2307G23168First he said, "Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them" (although the law required them to be made).G511G3004G3754G2378G2532G4376G2532G3646G2532G4012G266G2309G3756G3761G2106G3748G4374G2596G35519Then he said, "Here I am, I have come to do your will." He sets aside the first to establish the second.G5119G2046G2400G2240G4160G4675G2307G2316G337G4413G2443G2476G120810And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.G1722G3739G2307G2070G37G1223G4376G4983G2424G5547G217811Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.G2532G3303G3956G2409G2476G2596G2250G3008G2532G4374G4178G846G2378G3748G1410G3763G4014G26612But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God.G1161G846G4374G3391G2378G5228G266G1519G1336G2523G1722G1188G231613Since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool,G3063G1551G2193G846G2190G5087G846G5286G422814because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.G1063G3391G4376G5048G1519G1336G3715The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says:G1161G40G4151G2532G3140G2254G1063G3326G428016"This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds."G3778G1242G3739G1303G4314G846G3326G1565G2250G3004G2962G1325G3450G3551G1909G846G2588G2532G1909G846G1271G1924G84617Then he adds: "Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more."G2532G846G266G2532G458G846G3415G3364G208918And where these have been forgiven, there is no longer any sacrifice for sin.G1161G3699G859G5130G3765G4376G4012G26619Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,G2192G3767G80G3954G1519G1529G39G1722G129G242420by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body,G4372G2532G2198G3598G3739G1457G2254G1223G2665G5123G846G456121and since we have a great priest over the house of God,G2532G3173G2409G1909G3624G231622let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.G4334G3326G228G2588G1722G4136G4102G4472G2588G4472G575G4190G4893G2532G4983G3068G2513G520423Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.G2722G3671G1680G186G1063G4103G186124And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.G2532G2657G240G1519G3948G26G2532G2570G204125Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another--and all the more as you see the Day approaching.G3361G1459G1997G1438G1997G2531G1485G5100G235G3870G2532G5118G3123G3745G991G2250G144826If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left,G1063G2257G264G1596G3326G2983G1922G225G620G3765G2378G4012G26627but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.G1161G5100G5398G1561G2920G2532G4442G2205G3195G2068G522728Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.G5100G114G3475G3551G599G5565G3628G1909G1417G2228G5140G314429How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?G4214G5501G5098G1380G515G3588G2662G5207G2316G2532G2233G129G1242G3739G1722G37G2839G2532G1796G4151G548530For we know him who said, "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge his people."G1063G1492G2036G1557G1698G1473G467G3004G2962G2532G3825G2962G2919G846G299231It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.G5398G1706G1519G5495G2198G231632Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you stood your ground in a great contest in the face of suffering.G1161G363G4386G2250G1722G3739G5461G5278G4183G119G380433Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated.G5124G3303G2301G5037G3680G2532G2347G1161G5124G1096G2844G390G3779G39034You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions.G2532G1063G4834G3450G1199G2532G4327G3326G5479G724G5216G5224G1097G1722G1438G2192G1722G3772G2909G2532G3306G522335So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.G577G3361G577G3767G5216G3954G3748G2192G3173G340536You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.G1063G2192G5532G5281G2443G4160G2307G2316G2865G186037For in just a very little while, "He who is coming will come and will not delay.G1063G2089G3397G3745G3745G2064G2240G2532G5549G3756G554938But my righteous one will live by faith. And if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him."G1161G1342G2198G1537G4102G2532G1437G5288G3450G5590G2106G3756G2106G1722G84639But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved.G1161G2249G2070G3756G5289G1519G684G235G4102G1519G4047G5590
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