Hebrews:10

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* For (note :)He prevents a private objection . Why then were those sacrifices offered ? The apostle answers , first concerning the yearly sacrifice which was the solemnest of all , in which (he says ) there was made every year a remembrance again of all former sins . Therefore that sacrifice had no power to sanctify : for to what purpose should those sins which are purged be repeated again , and why should new sins come to be repeated every year , if those sacrifices abolished sin ?(:note ) the law having a shadow of good things to Of things which are everlasting , which were promised to the fathers , and exhibited in Christ . come , [and ] not the very image of the things , can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect . * For would they not then haue ceased to haue bene offered , because that the offerers once purged , should haue had no more conscience of sinnes ? * But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance againe of sinnes euery yeere . * For it is vnpossible that the blood of bulles and goates should take away sinnes . * * In burnt offerings , and sinne offrings thou hast had no pleasure . * Then I sayd , Lo , I come (In the beginning of the booke it is written of me ) that I should doe thy will , O God . * Aboue , when he sayd , Sacrifice and offring , and burnt offrings , and sinne offrings thou wouldest not haue , neither hadst pleasure therein (which are offered by the Lawe ) * Then said he , Lo , I come to do thy will , O God . He taketh away the (note :)That is , the sacrifices , to establish the second , that is , the will of God .(:note ) first , that he may establish the second . * By the which wil we are sanctified , euen by the offring of the body of Iesus Christ once made . * * But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sinnes , sitteth for euer at the right hand of God , * * For with one offering hath he consecrated for euer them that are sanctified . * * This is the Testament that I will make vnto them after those dayes , sayth the Lord , I wil put my Lawes in their heart , and in their mindes I will write them . * And their sins and iniquities will I remember (note :)Why then , where is the fire of purgatory , and that popish distinction of the fault , and the punishment ?(:note ) no more . * Now where remission of these [is , there is ] no more offering for (note :)He said well , for sin : for there remains another offering , that is , of thanksgiving .(:note ) sin . * * By a new and living way , which he hath consecrated for us , through the veil , that is to say , his (note :)So Christ 's flesh shows us the Godhead as if it were under a veil , For otherwise we could not stand the brightness of it .(:note ) flesh ; * And seeing we haue an hie Priest , which is ouer the house of God , * * And washed in our bodies with pure water , let vs keepe the profession of our hope , without wauering , (for he is faithfull that promised ) * And let vs consider one another , to prouoke vnto loue , and to good workes , * Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together , as the manner of some [is ]; but exhorting [one another ]: (note :)Having mentioned the last coming of Christ , he stirs up the godly to the meditation of a holy life , and cites the faithless fallers from God to the fearful judgment seat of the Judge , because they wickedly rejected him in whom only salvation consists .(:note ) and so much the more , as ye see the day approaching . * For if we sin (note :)Without any cause or occasion , or show of occasion .(:note ) wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth , there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins , * But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation , which shall devour the (note :)For it is another matter to sin through the frailty of man 's nature , and another thing to proclaim war on God as on an enemy .(:note ) adversaries . * * Of howe much sorer punishment suppose ye shall hee be worthy , which treadeth vnder foote the Sonne of God , and counteth the blood of the Testament as an vnholy thing , wherewith he was sanctified , and doeth despite the Spirit of grace ? * * It is a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the liuing God . * * Partly , whilst ye were made a (note :)You were brought forth to be shamed .(:note ) gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions ; and partly , whilst ye became In taking their miseries , to be your miseries . companions of them that were so used . * For ye had compassion of me in my bonds , and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods , knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring (note :)Goods and riches .(:note ) substance . * Cast not away therefore your confidence which hath great recompense of reward . * For ye haue neede of patience , that after ye haue done the will of God , ye might receiue the promes . * For yet a (note :)He will come within this very little while .(:note ) little while , and he that shall come will come , and will not tarry . * * But we are not they which withdrawe our selues vnto perdition , but follow faith vnto the conseruation of the soule .

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