Hebrews:10

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* For the Law , having a shadow of the good things to come , and not the very image of those things , can never with these same sacrifices , which they offer continually year by year , make those who approach perfect . * For then , would they not have ceased to be offered ? For those serving , once purified , would have had no more consciousness of sins . * But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year . * For it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins . * Therefore , when He came into the world , He said : Sacrifice and offering You did not desire , but a body You have prepared for Me . * You did not take pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin . * Then I said , Behold , I have come (in the volume of the book it is written of Me ) to do Your will , O God . * Previously saying , Sacrifice and offering , burnt offerings , and offerings for sin You did not desire , nor were pleased with them (which are offered according to the Law ), * then He said , Behold , I have come to do Your will , O God . He takes away the first in order that He may establish the second . * By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all . * And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices , which can never take away sins . * But this Man , after He had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time , sat down at the right hand of God , * from that time onward waiting till His enemies are made His footstool . * For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified . * But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us ; for after He had said before , * This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days , says the Lord : I will put My Laws into their hearts , and in their minds I will write them , * then He adds , Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more . * Now where there is remission of these , there is no longer an offering for sin . * Therefore , brethren , having boldness to enter the Holy of Holies by the blood of Jesus , * by a new and living way which He consecrated for us , through the veil ; that is , His flesh ; * and having a High Priest over the house of God , * let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith , having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water . * Let us hold fast the confession of the hope without wavering , for He who promised is faithful . * And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works , * not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together , as is the manner of some , but exhorting ; and so much the more as you see the Day drawing near . * For if we sin willfully after we have received the full true knowledge of the truth , there remains no more sacrifice for sins , * but a certain fearful expectation of judgment , and fiery indignation which will devour those who oppose . * Anyone who rejected Moses ’ Law dies without mercy before two or three witnesses . * Of how much worse punishment , do you suppose , will he be thought worthy who has trampled on the Son of God , counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing , and insulted the Spirit of Grace ? * For we know Him who has said , Vengeance is Mine , I will repay , says the Lord . And again , The Lord will judge His people . * It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God . * But remember the former days in which , after you were given understanding , you endured a great struggle with afflictions , * indeed while you were made a spectacle both by reproaches and afflictions , and also while you became companions of those who were so treated ; * for you had compassion on me in my bonds , and joyfully accepted the plundering of your goods , knowing , yourselves , that you have a better and an enduring possession in Heaven . * Therefore do not cast away your confidence , which has great reward . * For you have need of endurance , so that after you have done the will of God , you may receive the promise : * For yet a little while , and He who is coming will come and will not linger . * Now the just shall live by faith ; but if anyone draws back , My soul is not pleased with him . * But we are not of those who draw back to destruction , but of those who believe to the preserving of the soul .

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