Hebrews 10

Christ's Unique Offering Hebrews 10:5–10

⁵Verse 5. Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire, but you prepared a body for me. ⁶Verse 6. You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin. ⁷Verse 7. Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’” ⁸Verse 8. Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in them” (those which are offered according to the law), ⁹Verse 9. then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,

¹⁰Verse 10. by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Contrast with Christ's Priesthood Hebrews 10:11–14

¹¹Verse 11. Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins, ¹²Verse 12. but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God; ¹³Verse 13. from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet. ¹⁴Verse 14. For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

The New Covenant Promised Hebrews 10:15–18

¹⁵Verse 15. The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying, ¹⁶Verse 16. “This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;’” then he says, ¹⁷Verse 17. “I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more.” ¹⁸Verse 18. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

Encouragement to Approach God Hebrews 10:19–25

¹⁹Verse 19. Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰Verse 20. by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; ²¹Verse 21. and having a great priest over God’s house, ²²Verse 22. let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water, ²³Verse 23. let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful. ²⁴Verse 24. Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

²⁵Verse 25. not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

Warning Against Deliberate Sin Hebrews 10:26–31

²⁶Verse 26. For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, ²⁷Verse 27. but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries. ²⁸Verse 28. A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses. ²⁹Verse 29. How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

³⁰Verse 30. For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me,” says the Lord, “I will repay.” Again, “The Lord will judge his people.” ³¹Verse 31. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Call to Perseverance Hebrews 10:32–39

³²Verse 32. But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings; ³³Verse 33. partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so. ³⁴Verse 34. For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens. ³⁵Verse 35. Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward. ³⁶Verse 36. For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise. ³⁷Verse 37. “In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait.

³⁸Verse 38. But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.” ³⁹Verse 39. But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.