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Hebrews 10

¹The Jewish Law is not a full and faithful model of the real things; it is only a faint outline of the good things to come. The same sacrifices are offered forever, year after year. How can the Law, then, by means of these sacrifices make perfect the people who come to God?

²If the people worshiping God had really been purified from their sins, they would not feel guilty of sin any more, and all sacrifices would stop.

³As it is, however, the sacrifices serve year after year to remind people of their sins.

⁴For the blood of bulls and goats can never take away sins.

⁵For this reason, when Christ was about to come into the world, he said to God: "You do not want sacrifices and offerings, but you have prepared a body for me.

⁶You are not pleased with animals burned whole on the altar or with sacrifices to take away sins.

⁷Then I said, 'Here I am, to do your will, O God, just as it is written of me in the book of the Law.' "

⁸First he said, "You neither want nor are you pleased with sacrifices and offerings or with animals burned on the altar and the sacrifices to take away sins." He said this even though all these sacrifices are offered according to the Law.

⁹Then he said, "Here I am, O God, to do your will." So God does away with all the old sacrifices and puts the sacrifice of Christ in their place.

¹⁰Because Jesus Christ did what God wanted him to do, we are all purified from sin by the offering that he made of his own body once and for all.

¹¹Every Jewish priest performs his services every day and offers the same sacrifices many times; but these sacrifices can never take away sins.

¹²Christ, however, offered one sacrifice for sins, an offering that is effective forever, and then he sat down at the right side of God.

¹³There he now waits until God puts his enemies as a footstool under his feet.

¹⁴With one sacrifice, then, he has made perfect forever those who are purified from sin.

¹⁵And the Holy Spirit also gives us his witness. First he says,

¹⁶"This is the covenant that I will make with them in the days to come, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts and write them on their minds."

¹⁷And then he says, "I will not remember their sins and evil deeds any longer."

¹⁸So when these have been forgiven, an offering to take away sins is no longer needed.

¹⁹We have, then, my friends, complete freedom to go into the Most Holy Place by means of the death of Jesus.

²⁰He opened for us a new way, a living way, through the curtain---that is, through his own body.

²¹We have a great priest in charge of the house of God.

²²So let us come near to God with a sincere heart and a sure faith, with hearts that have been purified from a guilty conscience and with bodies washed with clean water.

²³Let us hold on firmly to the hope we profess, because we can trust God to keep his promise.

²⁴Let us be concerned for one another, to help one another to show love and to do good.

²⁵Let us not give up the habit of meeting together, as some are doing. Instead, let us encourage one another all the more, since you see that the Day of the Lord is coming nearer.

²⁶For there is no longer any sacrifice that will take away sins if we purposely go on sinning after the truth has been made known to us.

²⁷Instead, all that is left is to wait in fear for the coming Judgment and the fierce fire which will destroy those who oppose God!

²⁸Anyone who disobeys the Law of Moses is put to death without any mercy when judged guilty from the evidence of two or more witnesses.

²⁹What, then, of those who despise the Son of God? who treat as a cheap thing the blood of God's covenant which purified them from sin? who insult the Spirit of grace? Just think how much worse is the punishment they will deserve!

³⁰For we know who said, "I will take revenge, I will repay"; and who also said, "The Lord will judge his people."

³¹It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God!

³²Remember how it was with you in the past. In those days, after God's light had shone on you, you suffered many things, yet were not defeated by the struggle.

³³You were at times publicly insulted and mistreated, and at other times you were ready to join those who were being treated in this way.

³⁴You shared the sufferings of prisoners, and when all your belongings were seized, you endured your loss gladly, because you knew that you still possessed something much better, which would last forever.

³⁵Do not lose your courage, then, because it brings with it a great reward.

³⁶You need to be patient, in order to do the will of God and receive what he promises.

³⁷For, as the scripture says, "Just a little while longer, and he who is coming will come; he will not delay.

³⁸My righteous people, however, will believe and live; but if any of them turns back, I will not be pleased with them."

³⁹We are not people who turn back and are lost. Instead, we have faith and are saved.