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The Letter to the Hebrews 10

10 For the law, having a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the image itself of those things—is never able to make perfect the ones approaching with the same sacrifices that they continually bring every year. 2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased being offered, because the ones serving would no longer have consciousness of sins, having been cleansed once? 3 But with those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. 4 For it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 5 Therefore, entering into the world, he says,

“Sacrifice and offering

you did not desire,

but a body you prepared for me;

6 in whole burnt offerings and concerning sin offerings

nor were you well-pleased with them.

7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—

as it is written about me in a section of a scroll—

to do your will, God.’”

8 When he says above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor did you take pleasure in them” (which things are offered according to the law), 9 then he had said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first in order to establish the second. 10 By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and never again. 11 And indeed, every priest stands every day serving and repeatedly offering the same sacrifices that never are able to take away sins. 12 But he, having offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, sat down at the right hand of God, 13 waiting from then until his enemies might be made a footstool for his feet. 14 For by one offering he has perfected for all time the ones being sanctified. 15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after having said,

16 “This is the covenant that I will covenant with them

after those days, says the Lord,

putting my laws in their hearts,

and I will write them on their mind.” 17 And then,

“Their sins and their lawless deeds

I will certainly not still remember.”

18 Now where there is forgiveness for these things, there is no longer sacrifice on behalf of sin.

19 Therefore, brothers, having confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, 20 which has inaugurated for us a fresh and living way through the curtain, that is, his flesh, 21 and a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts having been sprinkled clean from a wicked conscience and our body having been washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold tightly the confession of our hope without wavering, because the one having promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider one another to stimulate love and good deeds, 25 not abandoning our own meeting together, just as is the habit for some people, but exhorting one another, and so much more in as much as you see that day approaching.

26 For if we deliberately keep on sinning after we receive the full knowledge of the truth, a sacrifice on behalf of sins no longer remains, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and of fire of zeal that is going to consume the adversaries. 28 Anyone having rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy at the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much worse punishment do you think will deserve the one having trampled underfoot the Son of God and having considered the blood of the covenant—by which he was sanctified—as profane and having insulted the Spirit of grace! 30 For we know the one having said, “Vengeance is mine; I will pay back.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.” 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God!

32 But remember the former days, in which, having been enlightened, you endured a great struggle of sufferings, 33 at times indeed being publicly exposed both to reproach and persecution, but at other times having become partners of the ones being treated in this way. 34 For you also sympathized with the prisoners, and you welcomed with joy the seizure of your possessions, knowing yourselves to have a better and abiding possession.[fn] 35 So you must not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. 36 For you have need of endurance so that, having done the will of God, you might obtain the promise.

37 “For yet in a very little while,

the one coming will come and will not delay.

38 But my righteous one will live by faith,

and if he would shrink back, my soul is not well-pleased with him.”

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

Some older versions have For you had compassion on me in my chains.

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