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Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All
For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.
For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.
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.
Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness 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 sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.
But instead, those sacrifices actually reminded them of their sins year after year.
For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
For it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
in burnt offerings and sin offerings
you have taken no pleasure.
you have taken no pleasure.
You were not pleased with burnt offerings
or other offerings for sin.
or other offerings for sin.
Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,
as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”
as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”
When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these 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 added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to 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.
And by that 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 at his service, offering repeatedly 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 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 that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet.
There he waits until his enemies are humbled and made a footstool under his feet.
For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
For by that one offering he forever made perfect those who are being made holy.
And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,
And the Holy Spirit also testifies that this is so. For he says,
“This is the covenant that I will make with them
after those days, declares the Lord:
I will put my laws on their hearts,
and write them on their minds,”
after those days, declares the Lord:
I will put my laws on their hearts,
and write them on their minds,”
then he adds,
“I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”
“I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”
Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
And when sins have been forgiven, there is no need to offer any more sacrifices.
by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,
and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God’s house,
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed 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 our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.
Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise.
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,
Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works.
not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you 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 if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a 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 fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.
There is only the terrible expectation of God’s judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies.
Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence 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.
How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged 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 who said, “Vengeance is mine; 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.
It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,
sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated.
Sometimes you were exposed to public ridicule and were beaten, and sometimes you helped others who were suffering the same things.
For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession 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.
Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you!
For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.
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 little while,
and the coming one will come and will not delay;
“Yet a little while,
and the coming one 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 my righteous one shall live by faith,
and if he shrinks back,
my soul has no pleasure in him.”
and if he shrinks back,
my soul has no pleasure in him.”