Hebrews10

¹For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities , it can never , by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year , make perfect those who draw near .

²Otherwise , would they not have ceased to be offered , since the worshipers , having once been cleansed , would no longer have any consciousness of sins ?

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

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

⁵Consequently , when came into the world , he said , Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired , but a body have you prepared for me ;

⁶in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure .

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

⁸When 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 ),

⁹then he added , Behold , I have come to do your will . He does away with the first in order to establish the second .

¹⁰And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

¹¹And every priest stands daily at his service , offering repeatedly the same sacrifices , which can never take away sins .

¹²But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins , he sat down at the right hand of God ,

¹³waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet .

¹⁴For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified .

¹⁵And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us ; for after saying ,

¹⁶This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days , declares the Lord : I will put my laws on their hearts , and write them on their minds ,

¹⁷then he adds, I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more .

¹⁸Where there is forgiveness of these , there is no longer any offering for sin .

¹⁹Therefore , brothers , since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus ,

²⁰by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain , that is , through his flesh ,

²¹and since we have a great priest over the house of God ,

²²let us draw near 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 .

²³Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering , for he who promised is faithful .

²⁴And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works ,

²⁵not neglecting to meet together , as is the habit of some , but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near .

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

²⁷but a fearful expectation of judgment , and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries .

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

²⁹How much worse punishment , do you think , will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God , and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified , and has outraged the Spirit of grace ?

³⁰For we know him who said , Vengeance is mine ; I will repay . 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 when , after you were enlightened , you endured a hard struggle with sufferings ,

³³sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction , and sometimes being partners with those so treated .

³⁴For you had compassion on those in prison , and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property , since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one .

³⁵Therefore do not throw away your confidence , which has a great reward .

³⁶For you have need of endurance , so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised .

³⁷For , Yet a little while , and the coming one will come and will not delay ;

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

³⁹But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed , but of those who have faith and preserve their souls .