Hebrews 10 — FBV

10Verse 1The law is just a shadow of the good that was to come, and not the actual reality. So it can never through the repeated sacrifices offered year after year make right those who come to worship God.^{Verse 2}Otherwise wouldn't the sacrifices have stopped being offered? If the worshipers had been made clean once and for all, they wouldn't have had guilty consciences any longer.^{Verse 3}But in fact those sacrifices remind people of sins year after year,^{Verse 4}because it's impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to remove sins.^{Verse 5}That's why when Christ⁺came into the world he said, “You didn't want sacrifices or offerings, but you did prepare a body for me.^{Verse 6}Burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin gave you no pleasure.^{Verse 7}Then I said, ‘God, see I've come to do what you want me to do, just as it says about me in the book.’”^{+Verse 8}As mentioned above, “You didn't want sacrifices or offerings, and burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin gave you no pleasure,” (even though they are offered in accordance with the law's requirements).^{Verse 9}Then he said, “See, I've come to do what you want.” He gets rid of the first agreement so he can set up the second,^{Verse 10}through which we all are made holy through Jesus Christ offering his body once and for all time.^{Verse 11}Every priest officiates in the services day after day, again and again offering the same sacrifices that can never remove sins.^{Verse 12}But this Priest, after he had offered for sins a single sacrifice that lasts forever, sat down at God's right hand.^{Verse 13}Now he waits until all his enemies are conquered, becoming like a footstool for him.^{Verse 14}For by a single sacrifice he has set right forever those who are being made holy.^{Verse 15}As the Holy Spirit also tells us, for having said,^{Verse 16}“This is the agreement that I will make with them later on, says the Lord. I will put my laws inside them, and I will write them in their minds.” Then he adds,^{Verse 17}“I won't remember their sins and lawlessness anymore.”^{+Verse 18}Once free from such things, sin offerings are no longer needed.^{Verse 19}Now we have the confidence, brothers and sisters, to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus.^{Verse 20}Through his life and death,⁺he opened up a brand-new, living way through the veil to God.^{Verse 21}Since we have such a great priest placed in charge over the house of God,^{Verse 22}let us come close to God with sincere minds, totally trusting in him. Our minds have been sprinkled to purify them from our evil way of thinking, and our bodies have been washed clean by pure water.^{Verse 23}So let us hold onto the hope we're telling others about, never hesitating, for God who promised is trustworthy.^{Verse 24}Let's think about how we can motivate one another to love and to do what is good.^{Verse 25}We should not give up meeting together, as some have done. In fact we should be encouraging one another, especially as you see the End⁺approaching.^{Verse 26}For if we deliberately go on sinning after we've understood the truth, there's no longer any sacrifice for sins.^{Verse 27}All that's left is fear, expecting the impending judgment and the terrible fire that destroys those who are hostile to God.^{Verse 28}Someone who rejects the law of Moses is put to death without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses.^{Verse 29}How much worse do you think someone will deserve their punishment if they have trampled underfoot the Son of God, if they have disregarded the blood that sealed the agreement and makes us holy, treating it as ordinary and trivial, and have abused the Spirit of grace?^{Verse 30}We know God, and he said, “I will make sure that justice is done; I will give people what they deserve.” He also said, “The Lord will judge his people.”^{+Verse 31}It's terrifying to come under the power of the living God.^{Verse 32}Just remember the past when, after you understood the truth,⁺you experienced a great deal of suffering.^{Verse 33}Sometimes you were made a spectacle of, being insulted and attacked; at other times you stood in solidarity with those who were suffering.^{Verse 34}You showed your sympathy for those in prison, and took it cheerfully when your possessions were confiscated, knowing that you have something better coming that will truly last.^{Verse 35}So don't lose your confidence in God—it will be richly rewarded.^{Verse 36}You need to be patient so that having done what God wants, you'll receive what he has promised.^{Verse 37}“In just a little while he will come, as he said—he won't delay.^{Verse 38}Those who do what is right will live by trusting in God, and if they draw back from their commitment, I won't be pleased with them.”^{+Verse 39}But we're not the kind of people who draw back and end up being lost. We are those who trust in God to save us.