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 continually yearly, perfect those who approach.
2Since, would they not indeed have ceased being offered, on account of the worshippers once purged having no longer any conscience of sins?
3But in these there is a calling to mind of sins yearly.
4For blood of bulls and goats is incapable of taking away sins.
5Wherefore coming into the world he says, Sacrifice and offering thou willedst not; but thou hast prepared me a body.
6Thou tookest no pleasure in burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin.
7Then I said, Lo, I come (in the roll of the book it is written of me) to do, O God, thy will.
8Above, saying Sacrifices and offerings and burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou willedst not, neither tookest pleasure in (which are offered according to the law);
9then he said, Lo, I come to do thy will. He takes 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 stands daily ministering, and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
12But *he*, having offered one sacrifice for sins, sat down in perpetuity at the right hand of God,
13waiting from henceforth until his enemies be set for the footstool of his feet.
14For by one offering he has perfected in perpetuity the sanctified.
15And the Holy Spirit also bears us witness of it; for after what was said:
16This is the covenant which I will establish towards them after those days, saith the Lord: Giving my laws into their hearts, I will write them also in their understandings;
17and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more.
18But where there is remission of these, there is no longer a sacrifice for sin.
19Having therefore, brethren, boldness for entering into the holy of holies by the blood of Jesus,
20the new and living way which he has dedicated for us through the veil, that is, his flesh,
21and having a great priest over the house of God,
22let us approach with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, sprinkled as to our hearts from a wicked conscience, and washed as to our body with pure water.
23Let us hold fast the confession of the hope unwavering, (for he is faithful who has promised;)
24and let us consider one another for provoking to love and good works;
25not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the custom is with some; but encouraging one another, and by so much the more as ye see the day drawing near.
26For where we sin wilfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains any sacrifice for sins,
27but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and heat of fire about to devour the adversaries.
28Any one that has disregarded Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses:
29of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and esteemed the blood of the covenant, whereby he has been sanctified, common, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
30For we know him that said, To me belongs vengeance; *I* will recompense, saith the Lord: and again, The Lord shall judge his people.
31It is a fearful thing falling into the hands of the living God.
32But call to mind the earlier days in which, having been enlightened, ye endured much conflict of sufferings;
33on the one hand, when ye were made a spectacle both in reproaches and afflictions; and on the other, when ye became partakers with those who were passing through them.
34For ye both sympathised with prisoners and accepted with joy the plunder of your goods, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better substance, and an abiding one.
35Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense.
36For ye have need of endurance in order that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.
37For yet a very little while he that comes will come, and will not delay.
38But the just shall live by faith; and, if he draw back, my soul does not take pleasure in him.
39But *we* are not drawers back to perdition, but of faith to saving the soul.
1Now faith is the substantiating of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
2For in the power of this the elders have obtained testimony.
3By faith we apprehend that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that that which is seen should not take its origin from things which appear.
4By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained testimony of being righteous, God bearing testimony to his gifts, and by it, having died, he yet speaks.
5By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him; for before his translation he has the testimony that he had pleased God.
6But without faith it is impossible to please him. For he that draws near to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them who seek him out.
7By faith, Noah, oracularly warned concerning things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his house; by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
8By faith Abraham, being called, obeyed to go out into the place which he was to receive for an inheritance, and went out, not knowing where he was going.
9By faith he sojourned as a stranger in the land of promise as a foreign country, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise;
10for he waited for the city which has foundations, of which God is the artificer and constructor.
11By faith also Sarah herself received strength for the conception of seed, and that beyond a seasonable age; since she counted him faithful who promised.
12Wherefore also there have been born of one, and that of one become dead, even as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the countless sand which is by the sea shore.
13All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar off and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.
14For they who say such things shew clearly that they seek their country.
15And if they had called to mind that from whence they went out, they had had opportunity to have returned;
16but now they seek a better, that is, a heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he has prepared for them a city.
17By faith Abraham, when tried, offered up Isaac, and he who had received to himself the promises offered up his only begotten son,
18as to whom it had been said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called:
19counting that God was able to raise him even from among the dead, whence also he received him in a figure.
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 dying called to mind the going forth of the sons of Israel, and gave commandment concerning his bones.
23By faith Moses, being born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child beautiful; and they did not fear the injunction of the king.
24By faith Moses, when he had become great, refused to be called son of Pharaoh's daughter;
25choosing rather to suffer affliction along with the people of God than to have the temporary pleasure of sin;
26esteeming the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he had respect to the recompense.
27By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he persevered, as seeing him who is invisible.
28By faith he celebrated the passover and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.
29By faith they passed through the Red sea as through dry land; of which the Egyptians having made trial were swallowed up.
30By faith the walls of Jericho fell, having been encircled for seven days.
31By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish along with the unbelieving, having received the spies in peace.
32And what more do I say? For the time would fail me telling of Gideon, and Barak, and Samson, and Jephthah, and David and Samuel, and of the prophets:
33who by faith overcame kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped lions' mouths,
34quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, became strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, made the armies of strangers give way.
35Women received their dead again by resurrection; and others were tortured, not having accepted deliverance, that they might get a better resurrection;
36and others underwent trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, and of bonds and imprisonment.
37They were stoned, were sawn asunder, were tempted, died by the death of the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, evil treated,
38(of whom the world was not worthy,) wandering in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caverns of the earth.
39And these all, having obtained witness through faith, did not receive the promise,
40God having foreseen some better thing for us, that they should not be made perfect without us.
1Let *us* also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us,
2looking stedfastly on Jesus the leader and completer of faith: who, in view of the joy lying before him, endured the cross, having despised the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3For consider well him who endured so great contradiction from sinners against himself, that ye be not weary, fainting in your minds.
4Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, wrestling against sin.
5And ye have quite forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when reproved by him;
6for whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.
7Ye endure for chastening, God conducts himself towards you as towards sons; for who is the son that the father chastens not?
8But if ye are without chastening, of which all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
9Moreover we have had the fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced them; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of 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.
11But no chastening at the time seems to be matter of joy, but of grief; but afterwards yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those exercised by it.
12Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the failing knees;
13and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned aside; but that rather it may be healed.
14Pursue peace with all, and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord:
15watching lest there be any one who lacks the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;
16lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright;
17for ye know that also afterwards, desiring to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, (for he found no place for repentance) although he sought it earnestly with tears.
18For ye have not come to the mount that might be touched and was all on fire, and to obscurity, and darkness, and tempest,
19and trumpet's sound, and voice of words; which they that heard, excusing themselves, declined the word being addressed to them any more:
20(for they were not able to bear what was enjoined: And if a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;
21and, so fearful was the sight, Moses said, I am exceedingly afraid and full of trembling;)
22but ye have come to mount Zion; and to the city of the living God, heavenly Jerusalem; and to myriads of angels,
23the universal gathering; and to the assembly of the firstborn who are registered in heaven; and to God, judge of all; and to the spirits of just men made perfect;
24and to Jesus, mediator of a new covenant; and to the blood of sprinkling, speaking better than Abel.
25See that ye refuse not him that speaks. For if those did not escape who had refused him who uttered the oracles on earth, much more we who turn away from him who does so from heaven:
26whose voice then shook the earth; but now he has promised, saying, Yet once will *I* shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.
27But this Yet once, signifies the removing of what is shaken, as being made, that what is not shaken may remain.
28Wherefore let us, receiving a kingdom not to be shaken, have grace, by which let us serve God acceptably with reverence and fear.
29For also our God is a consuming fire. (Heb. 10:1‑12:29)