Hebrews 10

¹For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come and not the very image of the realities, can never make perfect those who draw near with the same sacrifices that they offer year by year in perpetuity.

²Otherwise, would they not have ceased being offered, because those worshiping would no longer have any consciousness of sins, having been cleansed once?

³But in these there is a reminder of sins year by year.

⁴For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

⁵Therefore, coming into the world, he says: 'Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me —'

⁶Burnt offerings and offerings for sin you have not taken pleasure in.

⁷Then I said, 'Behold, I have come — in the scroll of the book it is written concerning me — to do your will, O God.'

⁸Saying above that sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and offerings for sin you did not desire nor take pleasure in, which are offered according to the law,

⁹Then he has said, 'Behold, I have come to do your will, O God.' He takes away the first in order that he may establish the second.

¹⁰By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

¹¹And every priest stands day by day ministering and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which are never able to take away sins;

¹²But this one, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God —

¹³Henceforth waiting until his enemies are placed as a footstool for his feet.

¹⁴For by one offering he has perfected for all time those being sanctified.

¹⁵And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after having said:

¹⁶'This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days,' says the Lord: 'putting my laws upon their hearts, and upon their mind I will inscribe them —'

¹⁷And their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.

¹⁸Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.

¹⁹Having therefore, brothers, confidence for the entry into the holy places by the blood of Jesus —

²⁰which he inaugurated for us as a new and living way through the veil, that is, his flesh,

²¹and a great priest over the house of God —

²²let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.

²³let us hold fast the confession of hope without wavering, for faithful is the one who promised —

²⁴And let us consider one another to provoke to love and good works,

²⁵not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the custom of some, but encouraging, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

²⁶For if we willfully go on sinning after receiving the full knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

²⁷But a certain terrifying expectation of judgment and a fury of fire being about to devour the adversaries.

²⁸Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

²⁹How much worse punishment, do you think, will he deserve who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, and considered common the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and insulted the Spirit of grace?

³⁰For we know the One who said, 'Vengeance is mine, I will repay,' says the Lord; and again, 'The Lord will judge his people.'

³¹It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

³²But recall the former days in which, having been enlightened, you endured a great contest of sufferings,

³³on the one hand being made a spectacle by reproaches and afflictions, on the other hand having become partners of those thus living;

³⁴For you both sympathized with those in prison and accepted with joy the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have in yourselves a better possession, one in the heavens and an abiding one.

³⁵Do not throw away, therefore, your confidence, which has a great reward.

³⁶For you have need of endurance, so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

³⁷For yet a very little while, the Coming One will come and will not delay.

³⁸But my righteous one shall live by faith; and if he shrinks back, my soul takes no pleasure in him.

³⁹But we are not of shrinking back to destruction, but of faith to the preservation of the soul.