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Hebrews 10:1 (show verse)

For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.

Hebrews 10:2 (show verse)

For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once for all and so have no further consciousness of sin?

Hebrews 10:3 (show verse)

But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year.

Hebrews 10:4 (show verse)

For the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sins.

Hebrews 10:5 (show verse)

So when he came into the world, he said, "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.

Hebrews 10:6 (show verse)

"Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no delight in.

Hebrews 10:7 (show verse)

"Then I said, 'Here I am: I have come -- it is written of me in the scroll of the book -- to do your will, O God.'"

Hebrews 10:8 (show verse)

When he says above, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them" (which are offered according to the law),

Hebrews 10:9 (show verse)

then he says, "Here I am: I have come to do your will." He does away with the first to establish the second.

Hebrews 10:10 (show verse)

By his will we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Hebrews 10:11 (show verse)

And every priest stands day after day serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again -- sacrifices that can never take away sins.

Hebrews 10:12 (show verse)

But when this priest had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right hand of God,

Hebrews 10:13 (show verse)

where he is now waiting until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet.

Hebrews 10:14 (show verse)

For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy.

Hebrews 10:15 (show verse)

And the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us, for after saying,

Hebrews 10:16 (show verse)

"This is the covenant that I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws on their hearts and I will inscribe them on their minds,"

Hebrews 10:17 (show verse)

then he says, "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no longer."

Hebrews 10:18 (show verse)

Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.

Hebrews 10:19 (show verse)

Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,

Hebrews 10:20 (show verse)

by the fresh and living way that he inaugurated for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,

Hebrews 10:21 (show verse)

and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

Hebrews 10:22 (show verse)

let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings, because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.

Hebrews 10:23 (show verse)

And let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we confess, for the one who made the promise is trustworthy.

Hebrews 10:24 (show verse)

And let us take thought of how to spur one another on to love and good works,

Hebrews 10:25 (show verse)

not abandoning our own meetings, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and even more so because you see the day drawing near.

Hebrews 10:26 (show verse)

For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us,

Hebrews 10:27 (show verse)

but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume God's enemies.

Hebrews 10:28 (show verse)

Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Hebrews 10:29 (show verse)

How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for the Son of God, and profanes the blood of the covenant that made him holy, and insults the Spirit of grace?

Hebrews 10:30 (show verse)

For we know the one who said, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge his people."

Hebrews 10:31 (show verse)

It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Hebrews 10:32 (show verse)

But remember the former days when you endured a harsh conflict of suffering after you were enlightened.

Hebrews 10:33 (show verse)

At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and afflictions, and at other times you came to share with others who were treated in that way.

Hebrews 10:34 (show verse)

For in fact you shared the sufferings of those in prison, and you accepted the confiscation of your belongings with joy, because you knew that you certainly had a better and lasting possession.

Hebrews 10:35 (show verse)

So do not throw away your confidence, because it has great reward.

Hebrews 10:36 (show verse)

For you need endurance in order to do God's will and so receive what is promised.

Hebrews 10:37 (show verse)

For just a little longer and he who is coming will arrive and not delay.

Hebrews 10:38 (show verse)

But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, I take no pleasure in him.

Hebrews 10:39 (show verse)

But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their souls.