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Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All
The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming — not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming — not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
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 stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their 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 those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins.
But instead, those sacrifices actually reminded them of their sins year after year.
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.
Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said:
“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
but a body you prepared for me;
“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
but a body you prepared for me;
with burnt offerings and sin offerings
you were not pleased.
you were not pleased.
You were not pleased with burnt offerings
or other offerings for sin.
or other offerings for sin.
First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them” — though they were offered in accordance with 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, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first 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 made holy through the sacrifice 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.
Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers 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 when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down 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.
and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool.
There he waits until his enemies are humbled and made a footstool under his feet.
For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.
For by that one offering he forever made perfect those who are being made holy.
The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says:
And the Holy Spirit also testifies that this is so. For he says,
And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary.
And when sins have been forgiven, there is no need to offer any more sacrifices.
A Call to Persevere in Faith
Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,
Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,
by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body,
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 to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having 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 unswervingly to the hope we profess, 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 we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,
Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works.
not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another — and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
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.
If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left,
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 only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.
There is only the terrible expectation of God’s judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies.
Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died 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.
How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who 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.
It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering.
Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated.
Sometimes you were exposed to public ridicule and were beaten, and sometimes you helped others who were suffering the same things.
You suffered along with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions.
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.
So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.
So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you!
You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has 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 in just a little while,
the Coming One will come and not delay.
the Coming One will come and not delay.