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Christ's Sacrifice Once for All
For 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.
For 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.
Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All
The old system under the law of Moses was only a shadow, a dim preview of the good things to come, not the good things themselves. The sacrifices under that system were repeated again and again, year after year, but they were never able to provide perfect cleansing for those who came to worship.
The old system under the law of Moses was only a shadow, a dim preview of the good things to come, not the good things themselves. The sacrifices under that system were repeated again and again, year after year, but they were never able to provide perfect cleansing for those who came to worship.
Since, would they not indeed have ceased being offered, on account of the worshippers once purged having no longer any conscience of sins?
If they could have provided perfect cleansing, the sacrifices would have stopped, for the worshipers would have been purified once for all time, and their feelings of guilt would have disappeared.
But in these [there is] a calling to mind of sins yearly.
But instead, those sacrifices actually reminded them of their sins year after year.
For blood of bulls and goats [is] incapable of taking away sins.
For it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
Wherefore coming into the world he says, Sacrifice and offering thou willedst not; but thou hast prepared me a body.
Thou tookest no pleasure in burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin.
You were not pleased with burnt offerings
or other offerings for sin.
or other offerings for sin.
Then I said, Lo, I come (in [the] roll of the book it is written of me) to do, O God, thy will.
Above, 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);
First, Christ said, “You did not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings or burnt offerings or other offerings for sin, nor were you pleased with them” (though they are required by the law of Moses).
then he said, Lo, I come to do thy will. He takes away the first that he may establish the second;
Then he said, “Look, I have come to do your will.” He cancels the first covenant in order to put the second into effect.
by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
For God’s will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time.
And every priest stands daily ministering, and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
Under the old covenant, the priest stands and ministers before the altar day after day, offering the same sacrifices again and again, which can never take away sins.
But *he*, having offered one sacrifice for sins, sat down in perpetuity at [the] right hand of God,
But our High Priest offered himself to God as a single sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then he sat down in the place of honor at God’s right hand.
waiting from henceforth until his enemies be set [for the] footstool of his feet.
There he waits until his enemies are humbled and made a footstool under his feet.
For by one offering he has perfected in perpetuity the sanctified.
For by that one offering he forever made perfect those who are being made holy.
And the Holy Spirit also bears us witness [of it]; for after what was said:
And the Holy Spirit also testifies that this is so. For he says,
This [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;
and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more.
But where there [is] remission of these, [there is] no longer a sacrifice for sin.
And when sins have been forgiven, there is no need to offer any more sacrifices.
A Call to Persevere
Having therefore, brethren, boldness for entering into the [holy of] holies by the blood of Jesus,
Having therefore, brethren, boldness for entering into the [holy of] holies by the blood of Jesus,
the new and living way which he has dedicated for us through the veil, that is, his flesh,
and [having] a great priest over the house of God,
And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God’s house,
let 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.
let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ’s blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.
Let us hold fast the confession of the hope unwavering, (for he [is] faithful who has promised;)
Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise.
and let us consider one another for provoking to love and good works;
Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works.
not 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.
And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.
For where we sin wilfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains any sacrifice for sins,
Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins.
but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and heat of fire about to devour the adversaries.
There is only the terrible expectation of God’s judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies.
Any one that has disregarded Moses' law dies without mercy on [the testimony of] two or three witnesses:
For anyone who refused to obey the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
of 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?
Just think how much worse the punishment will be for those who have trampled on the Son of God, and have treated the blood of the covenant, which made us holy, as if it were common and unholy, and have insulted and disdained the Holy Spirit who brings God’s mercy to us.
For we know him that said, To me [belongs] vengeance; *I* will recompense, saith the Lord: and again, The Lord shall judge his people.
[It is] a fearful thing falling into [the] hands of [the] living God.
It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
But call to mind the earlier days in which, having been enlightened, ye endured much conflict of sufferings;
on 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.
Sometimes you were exposed to public ridicule and were beaten, and sometimes you helped others who were suffering the same things.
For 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.
You suffered along with those who were thrown into jail, and when all you owned was taken from you, you accepted it with joy. You knew there were better things waiting for you that will last forever.
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense.
So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you!
For ye have need of endurance in order that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.
Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God’s will. Then you will receive all that he has promised.
For yet a very little while he that comes will come, and will not delay.
“For in just a little while,
the Coming One will come and not delay.
the Coming One will come and not delay.
But the just shall live by faith; and, if he draw back, my soul does not take pleasure in him.