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Chapter 10 |
| 1 | For the law
having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things,
can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually
make the comers thereunto perfect. |
| 2 | For then would they not have
ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had
no more conscience of sins. |
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3 | But in those sacrifices there is a
remembrance again made of sins every year. |
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4 | For it is not possible
that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. |
| 5 | Wherefore
when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest
not, but a body hast thou prepared me: |
| 6 | In burnt offerings and
sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. |
| 7 | Then said I,
Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O
God. |
| 8 |
Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings
and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which
are offered by the law; |
| 9 | Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O
God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. |
| 10 |
By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus
Christ once for all. |
| 11 | And every priest standeth daily ministering
and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away
sins: |
| 12 |
But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for
ever, sat down on the right hand of God; |
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13 | From henceforth expecting
till his enemies be made his footstool. |
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14 | For by one offering he
hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. |
| 15 | Whereof the
Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
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| 16 | This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith
the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write
them; |
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And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
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| 18 | Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for
sin. |
| 19 |
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest
by the blood of Jesus, |
| 20 | By a new and living way, which he hath
consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; |
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And having an high priest over the house of God; |
| 22 | Let us draw
near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled
from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. |
| 23 | Let
us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful
that promised;) |
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24 | And let us consider one another to provoke unto
love and to good works: |
| 25 | Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves
together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the
more, as ye see the day approaching. |
| 26 | For if we sin wilfully after
that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more
sacrifice for sins, |
| 27 | But a certain fearful looking for of
judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. |
| 28 |
He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three
witnesses: |
| 29
| Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be
thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted
the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and
hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? |
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30 | For we know him that
hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And
again, The Lord shall judge his people. |
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31 | It is a fearful thing to
fall into the hands of the living God. |
| 32 | But call to remembrance the
former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of
afflictions; |
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33 | Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by
reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them
that were so used. |
| 34 | For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and
took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in
heaven a better and an enduring substance. |
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35 | Cast not away therefore
your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. |
| 36 | For ye have
need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive
the promise. |
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37 | For yet a little while, and he that shall come will
come, and will not tarry. |
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38 | Now the just shall live by faith: but
if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. |
| 39 | But
we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to
the saving of the soul. |
