Hebrews 10

 

1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come (through the faith revealed in Jesus Christ), but not the very shape and substance of the things, can never with those sacrifices (of bulls and goats) which they offered year by year continually make those who (desire to) draw near to (God) perfect (in their conscience, where they come boldly with full assurance to Him for reward having been once and for all time purged from death to serve the living God).

2 Otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshippers (seeing they were) once purged (from death) should no longer have a conscience that is (filled with laboring and toiling to preserve their own lives) from death.

3 But in those sacrifices, there is a remembrance made again every year of (the) death (that looms over them).

4 Because it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats could ever send away (conquering the) death (in a man’s flesh).

5 For that reason when He came into the world (as a man), He said, (Abba, You have opened My ears) sacrifice and offering (of the blood of bulls and goats) You did not desire (from Me). however, a body have You prepared Me (that I might provide Myself the lamb)

6 In burnt offering and sacrifice (of bulls and goats) for (their) death You have had no pleasure (because those offerings could never satisfy Your desire to be with them and stand face to face with them in Your love, forever).

7 Then I said, behold (I AM), in the volume (and the midst of the scroll) of the book it is written of Me. (I AM manifest in the flesh) to fulfill Your will O God (to provide Myself, the lamb).

8 After when He said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings (of the blood of bulls and goats) for (their) death You did not desire of Me, neither did You have pleasure (where Your will was forever satisfied) in those (sacrifices); which are offered according to the law;

9 Then said He, behold, I delight to do Your will, O God. (In which) He abolishes (the necessity for) the first (sacrifices contained in the law which were only ever a shadow), that He may establish the second (which is able to bring about His will and satisfy His desire to be with man forever).

10 By which will we are sanctified (from death) through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all time.

11 But yet every priest stands serving daily (at the altar) and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which cannot ever send away death:

12 But this man, after He had offered Himself one time as the sacrifice for (our) death forever, sat down on the right hand of God;

13 From then on expectantly waiting (for the sure hope) until (the day) His enemies (death and the grave) are made His footstool (in all the earth).

14 Because by the one offering (of Himself) has He perfected forever those that are purified (from death having been set apart for His life).

15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: because after that He has said,

16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; I will put My (Spirit into them and My) teaching and instruction into their minds and write it on their hearts (the work which I have done to provide Myself the lamb to remove their death once and for all time);

17 And their death and (the sting of) iniquity, (along with all the fruit of death that it served them) will I remember no more.

18 Now where death is sent away there is no longer an offering for iniquity (because the ones who see they were once and for all time purged from death rest from their labor to preserve their own lives).

19 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter (with confidence) into the holiest place (where we with an unveiled face may stand face to face with God) by the blood of (the Lamb) Jesus,

20 By a new and living way, which He has authored (and set apart) for us through the veil, that is to say, through His flesh (being rent for our body of death);

21 And having a (greater) high priest (who lives forever in glorified flesh) over the house of God;

22 Let us then draw near (to Him and enter) with a genuine heart with the full assurance of the faith (of Jesus Christ), having our hearts sprinkled (clean) from a conscience filled with our own works and our flesh washed clean (where our members go to rest) in the pure water (of the word of His testimony about us).

23 Let us hold fast to the (same) confession of our (sure) hope without wavering; for the One who promised (us the same life and immortality) is trustworthy (to perform it).

24 And let us think of one another to stir up (each another) to love and to (rest in His) good works:

25 Not abandoning the gathering of ourselves together, as is common among some, but (gathering together to) exhort one another (of the sure hope we have in Him): and so much more so as we see the day (of salvation) approaching (where all death and corruption in the earth will be removed in His return).

26 Because if we willfully disregard (​rejecting His sacrifice) and forfeit our share in His life after ​​we have received the knowledge of the truth (that He is the lamb God provided for our death ​that the law was always speaking about, there remains no ​other sacrifice for death​,

27 But (only) a certain fearful expectation of the judgment and fiery zeal (that is coming to remove every remnant of death from the earth), which (fire) will devour all the enemies (on the last day).

28 He that despised (and rejected the mercy spoken of in) Moses law died without (receiving its) mercy under two or three witnesses:

29 Of how much worse a punishment (of death that came from transgressing the law), do you think would be deemed fitting (of comparison), (for the one) who has (treated with disregard, having) trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has considered the blood of the testament (which secured the promise) by which (blood) he was sanctified (from death), an ordinary thing (thinking of it as common as the blood of bulls and goats), and has done despite to (rejecting) the Spirit of grace (which punishment in comparison seems like no punishment at all should one perish in the second death on the last day)?

30 For we know Him Who has promised, Vengeance belongs to Me, I will recompense (for death and reward with My life and immortality), says the Lord. And again, The Lord will bring His (mercy and) justice to His people.

31 It is a fearful thing (for the one expecting punishment and not reward) to fall into the hands of the living God (that though He has mercy in His hands they flee in fear unto destruction).

32 But rather keep in remembrance the former days, where after you were first enlightened (by the truth revealed in the faith of Jesus Christ), how you endured a great struggle of sufferings;

33 Whereby were you indeed made a spectacle both by reviling (insults) and tribulations (and persecution); because you became partners along with those that were so reproached.

34 Because you had compassion for me in my bonds and accepted the spoiling of your goods joyfully, knowing in your hearts that you have a better and more enduring (incorruptible) substance (reserved for you) in heaven.

35 Cast not away therefore your confidence (in the sure hope of the same life revealed in Jesus Christ), which has great recompence of reward.

36 For you have need of patience (which this hope and confidence brings you), so that after you have trusted in the will of God (to clothe you with His life), you might receive the promise.

37 For in yet a little while, and the One who (has promised He) will come, will (of a certainty) come, and (though men may think it be delayed, wait for it; because it will surely come) it will not delay.

38 Now the just (who rest in the certainty of Him to decorate them with all the fruit of His life unto immortality in their flesh) will live by the faith (revealed) of Jesus Christ: but if any man draws back (cowering away in fear), (He has said) My soul will have no pleasure in him (who perishes running unto destruction). 

39 But we are not of them who draw back (in fear) unto destruction; but of them that are fully persuaded (of the faith revealed in the death, burial, and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ) unto the complete wholeness of the entire person (to appear in His same life and immortality).