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1Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered year after year, make perfect those who approach.[#Heb 9.9, 11, 23; #10.1 Other ancient authorities read they]
2Otherwise, would they not have ceased being offered, since the worshipers, cleansed once for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sin?
3But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sin year after year.[#Heb 9.7]
4For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.[#Mic 6.6, 7]
5Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said,[#Ps 40.6–8; Heb 1.6; 1 Pet 2.24; #10.5 Gk he]
“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,
but a body you have prepared for me;
6in burnt offerings and sin offerings
you have taken no pleasure.
7Then I said, ‘See, I have come to do your will, O God’[#Jer 36.2]
(in the scroll of the book it is written of me).”
8When 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),
9then he added, “See, I have come to do your will.” He abolishes the first in order to establish the second.
10And it is by God’s will that we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.[#Jn 17.19; Heb 7.27; 1 Pet 2.24; #10.10 Gk by that will]
11And every priest stands day after day at his service, offering again and again the same sacrifices that can never take away sins.[#v 4 ; Heb 5.1]
12But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, “he sat down at the right hand of God,”[#10.12 Gk this one]
13and since then has been waiting “until his enemies would be made a footstool for his feet.”[#Ps 110.1; Heb 1.13]
14For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.
15And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,
16“This is the covenant that I will make with them[#Jer 31.33, 34]
after those days, says the Lord:
I will put my laws in their hearts,
and I will write them on their minds,”
17and he adds,
“I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”
18Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
19Therefore, my brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,[#Eph 2.18; Heb 9.8, 12]
20by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain (that is, through his flesh),[#Heb 9.3, 8]
21and since we have a great priest over the house of God,[#1 Tim 3.15; Heb 2.17]
22let us approach 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.[#Ezek 36.25; Eph 3.12; Heb 4.16; 9.14]
23Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who has promised is faithful.[#1 Cor 1.9; Heb 4.14]
24And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds,
25not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.[#Acts 2.42; Phil 4.5; Heb 3.13]
26For if we willfully persist in sin after having received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins[#Num 15.30; 2 Pet 2.20]
27but a fearful prospect of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.[#Isa 26.11; Heb 9.27]
28Anyone who has violated the law of Moses dies without mercy “on the testimony of two or three witnesses.”[#Deut 17.2–6; Heb 2.2]
29How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by those who have spurned the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant by which they were sanctified, and outraged the Spirit of grace?[#Eph 4.30; Heb 2.3; 6.4, 6; 13.20]
30For we know the one who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.”[#Deut 32.35, 36; Rom 12.19; #10.30 Other ancient authorities add says the]
31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32But recall those earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,[#Phil 1.29, 30; Heb 6.4]
33sometimes being publicly exposed to insults and afflictions and sometimes becoming partners with those so treated.[#1 Cor 4.9; 1 Thess 2.14]
34For you had compassion for those who were in prison, and you cheerfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you yourselves possessed something better and more lasting.[#Heb 9.15; #10.34 Other ancient authorities add in heaven]
35Do not, therefore, abandon that boldness of yours; it brings a great reward.
36For you need endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what was promised.[#Lk 21.19; Col 3.24]
37For yet[#Hab 2.3, 4; Lk 18.8]
“in a very little while,
the one who is coming will come and will not delay,
38but my righteous one will live by faith.[#Rom 1.17; Gal 3.11]
My soul takes no pleasure in anyone who shrinks back.”
39But we are not among those who shrink back and so are lost but among those who have faith and so preserve our souls.[#Acts 16.30; 2 Pet 2.20]