Heb. 10:1‑12:29• 1For the law, having a shadow of the coming good things, not the image itself of the things, can never by the same sacrifices, which they offer yearly continuously, perfect those that approach.
2Since would they not have ceased being offered on account of the worshippers once purified having no longer any conscience of sins?
3But in these [is] a calling to mind of sins yearly.
4For blood of bulls and goats [is] incapable of taking away sins.
5Wherefore entering into the world he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou willedst not, but a body thou preparedst for me:
6in whole burnt-offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hadst no pleasure.
7Then I said, Lo, I am come (in the book-roll it is written of me) to do thy will, O God.
8Above saying, Sacrifice and offering and whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou willedst not nor hadst pleasure in (the which are offered according to the law),
9then he hath said, Lo, I am come to do thy will. He taketh away the first 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 indeed standeth daily ministering and offering often the same sacrifices, the which can never take away sins;
12but he having offered one sacrifice for sins, continuously sat down on God's right hand,
13henceforth waiting until his enemies be set as footstool of his feet.
14For by one offering he hath perfected continuously the sanctified.
15And the Holy Spirit also witnesseth to us; for after he had said,
16This [is] the covenant which I will covenant unto them after those days, saith Jehovah, Giving my laws on their hearts, I will also write them on their understanding;
17and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember more.
18But where remission of these [is] [there is] no longer an offering for sin.
19Having therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holies by the blood of Jesus,
20a new and living way which he inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, his flesh,
21and [having] a great priest over the house of God,
22let us approach with true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from a wicked conscience, and our body washed with pure water.
23Let us hold fast the confession of the hope unwavering, for [he is] faithful that promised;
24and let us consider one another for provoking love and good works,
25not forsaking the gathering of ourselves together as [is] a custom for some, but encouraging, and by so much rather as ye see the day drawing near.
26For if we sin wilfully after receiving the full knowledge of the truth, there no longer remaineth a sacrifice for sins,
27but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and heat of fire about to devour the adversaries.
28Anyone if he set at nought Moses' law dieth apart from mercy on two or three witnesses:
29of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy that trod down the Son of God, and counted common the blood of the covenant whereby he was sanctified, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
30For we know him that said, To me [is] vengeance; I will recompense, saith Jehovah; and again, Jehovah shall judge his people.
31Fearful [it is] to fall into a living God's hands.
32But call to mind the former days, in which enlightened as ye were ye endured a great fight of afflictions,
33on this side made a spectacle in both reproaches and afflictions, and on that become companions of those so used;
34for ye both sympathised with prisoners and accepted with joy the plunder of your goods, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better and abiding substance.
35Cast not away therefore your confidence, the which hath great recompense.
36For ye have need of endurance, that having done the will of God ye may receive the promise.
37For yet a very little while: he that cometh will have come and will not delay.
38But the just shall live by faith; and if he draw back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.
39But we are not of drawing back unto perdition but of faith unto soul-saving.
1Now faith is substance of [things] hoped for, demonstration of things not seen.
2For in [virtue of] this the elders were witnessed of.
3By faith we apprehend that the worlds were framed by God's word, so that the [things] beheld have not derived their being out of [things] apparent.
4By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain by which it was witnessed that he was righteous, God witnessing in respect of his gifts; and through it he, having died, yet speaketh.
5By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death, and was not found because God translated him; for before the translation, it hath been witnessed that he had pleased God.
6But apart from faith [it is] impossible to please [him], for he that approacheth to God must believe that he is, and becometh a rewarder of those that seek him out.
7By faith Noah, oracularly warned of things not yet beheld, moved with fear, constructed an ark for saving his house, by which he condemned the world and became heir of righteousness that is according to faith.
8By faith Abraham, when called, obeyed to go out into a place which he was to receive for an inheritance, and went out not knowing where he was going.
9By faith he sojourned in the land of promise as not his own, dwelling as he did in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the joint-heirs of the same promise;
10for he waited for the city that hath the foundations, of which God is architect and master-builder.
11By faith also Sarah herself received power for deposition of seed even beyond season of age, since she counted faithful him that promised.
12Wherefore also there were born from one, and that one become dead, even as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as the countless sand that is by the sea-shore.
13All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and greeted, and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.
14For they that say such things make plain that they seek out a country.
15And if indeed they called to mind that from which they went out, they might have had opportunity to return;
16but now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he prepared for them a city.
17By faith Abraham when tried offered up Isaac, and he that received to himself the promises was offering his only-begotten
18as to whom it was spoken, In Isaac shall thy seed be called;
19accounting that God [is] able to raise even from out of dead [men], whence also he received him back in parable.
20By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
21By faith Jacob when dying blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshipped on the top of his staff.
22By faith Joseph when ending life called to mind the going forth of the sons of Israel and gave commandment concerning his bones.
23By faith Moses when born was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child beautiful; and they did not fear the order of the king.
24By faith Moses when become great refused to be called son of Pharaoh's daughter,
25choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to have temporary pleasure of sin,
26counting the Christ's reproach greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he looked off unto the recompense.
27By faith he left Egypt, not afraid of the wrath of the king; for he persevered as seeing the Invisible.
28By faith he hath celebrated the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.
29By faith they passed through the Red Sea, as through dry land, of which the Egyptians made trial and were swallowed up.
30By faith the walls of Jericho fell, having been encircled seven days.
31By faith Rahab the harlot perished not along with the disobedient, having received the spies with peace.
32And what more do I say? For the time would fail me telling of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets;
33who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped lions' mouths,
34quenched fire's power, escaped sword's edge, were strengthened from weakness, became mighty in war, put to flight armies of aliens.
35Women received their dead again by resurrection; and others were tortured, not having accepted their deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection;
36and others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yea and of bonds and imprisonment.
37They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they died by slaughter of sword. They went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
38(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and the chinks of the earth.
39And these all having been witnessed of through their faith received not the promise,
40God having foreseen some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be perfected.
1Therefore let us also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight and the readily besetting sin, run with endurance the race that is set before us,
2looking off unto Jesus the leader and completer of faith; who for the joy set before him endured cross, despising shame, and is set down on the right hand of the throne of God.
3For consider well him that endured so great contradiction by sinners against himself, that ye weary not, fainting in your souls.
4Not yet unto blood resisted ye, wrestling against sin.
5And ye have quite forgotten the exhortation the which discourseth with you as sons, My son, regard not lightly Jehovah's chastening, nor faint when reproved of him:
6for whom Jehovah loveth, he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
7For chastisement ye are enduring: God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son [is he] whom a father chasteneth not?
8But if ye are apart from chastisement of which all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards and not sons.
9Then indeed we had fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced them: shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of the spirits and live?
10For they indeed chastened for a few days, as seemed good to them; but he for profit in order to the partaking of his holiness.
11Now no chastisement for the time seemeth to be of joy but of grief; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit of righteousness to those that have been exercised thereby.
12Wherefore lift up the exhausted hands and the enfeebled knees,
13and make straight paths for your feet that what is lame be not turned out of the way but rather be healed.
14Pursue peace with all, and holiness apart from which no one shall see the Lord,
15looking carefully lest [there be] Anyone falling short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up give trouble and through it [the] many be defiled;
16lest [there be] any fornicator or profane one as Esau who for one meal sold his own birthright;
17for ye know that even when afterward desiring to inherit the blessing he was rejected (for he found no place of repentance), though he sought it earnestly with tears.
18For ye have not approached to a palpable thing and all aglow with fire, and to obscurity and gloom and tempest,
19and to trumpet's sound, and a voice of words, which those that heard deprecated that a word more should be addressed to them;
20for they could not bear what was enjoined, And if a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;
21and, so fearful was the appearance, Moses said, I am affrighted and trembling all over.
22But ye have approached to mount Zion; and to a living God's city, heavenly Jerusalem; and to myriads of angels, a universal assemblage;
23and to an assembly of firstborns, enrolled in heavens; and to God judge of all; and to spirits of just ones made perfect;
24and to Jesus mediator of a new covenant, and to blood of sprinkling speaking better than Abel.
25Look that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if those did not escape, refusing as they did him speaking oracularly on earth, much more we that turn away from him from [the] heavens;
26whose voice then shook the earth, but now hath he promised, saying, Yet once will I shake not only the earth but also the heaven.
27But this Yet once signifieth the removing of what are shaken as being made that what are not shaken may remain.
28Wherefore let us, receiving a kingdom not to be shaken, have grace by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and fear.
29For also our God is a consuming fire. (Heb. 10:1‑12:29)