Hebrews 10

For since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, not the true form of the things, it is never able, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually year after year, to make those who draw near perfect.

Otherwise, would they not have stopped offering those sacrifices? Because the ones who serve, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins.

But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year.

For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Therefore, when he comes into the world, he says, You did not want sacrifice and offering, but a body you prepared for me.

Then I said, in the scroll of the book it is written about me, “Look! I have come to do your will, O God.”

After saying above, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you did not want, nor did you have pleasure in them (which are continually offered according to the law),

then he has said, Look! I have come to do your will. He is abolishing the first covenant, in order to establish the second.

By that same will, we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all.

And on the one hand, every other priest stands ministering day after day and offering the same sacrifices over and over, which are never able to take away sins.

But on the other hand, this priest, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down on the right hand of God,

from then on waiting until his enemies are placed as a footstool for his feet.

For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are being made holy.

And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. For after saying,

This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws on their heart, and I will write them on their mind, then he says,

and their sins and their lawlessness I will remember no more.

Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer an offering for sin.

Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter into the holy places by the blood of Jesus,

by the way that he dedicated for us, a newly made and a living way, through the curtain, that is to say, his flesh,

and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

let us approach with a true heart, in full assurance of trust, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with clean water,

let us hold on firmly to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.

And let us consider one another, to spur one another on to love and good works,

not abandoning our meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but exhorting one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

For if we keep on sinning deliberately after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

but only a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire, which is about to devour the adversaries.

Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by the one who has trampled under foot the Son of God and has considered the blood of the covenant by which he was made holy to be a common thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

For we know him who said, vengeance belongs to me; I will repay. 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 enlightened, you endured a great struggle, with much suffering.

Sometimes you were publicly exposed to abuse and afflictions, and sometimes you were companions with those who were so treated.

For you had compassion on those in prison, and joyfully accepted the seizure of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession, and a lasting one.

Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which will have a great reward.

For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, then you will receive the promise.

But my righteous one will live by trust, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.

But we are not of those who shrink back, resulting in destruction, but of those who have trust, resulting in keeping our life.