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          DASV: Hebrews 10    

1 For since the law has only a shadow of the good things to
come, not the true form of these things, it can never with
the same sacrifices offered continually year after year,
make perfect those who approach for worship.
2 Otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since
the worshippers, having been cleansed once for all, would
have had no more consciousness of sins?
3 But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year
after year.
4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take
away sins.
5 Therefore when he came into the world, he said,
     "You did not desire sacrifice and offering,
            but a body you have prepared for me,
6 You take no pleasure in whole burnt offerings
            and sacrifices for sin.
7 Then I said, 'Here I am (it is written about me in the
scroll of the book)
      I have come to do your will, O God.'"
8 When he says above, "You did not desire sacrifices and
offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin,
neither do you take pleasure in them" (even though they are
offered according to the law),
9 then he said, "Here I am, I have come to do your will." He
does away with the first, that he may establish the second.
10 By his will we have been sanctified through the offering
of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 Now every priest stands day after day serving and offering
over and over the same sacrifices, that can never take away
sins.
12 But when this one offered a single sacrifice for sins
for all time, he sat down at the right hand of God,
13 where he is waiting until his enemies are made a footstool
for his feet.
14 For by a single offering he has perfected forever those
who are sanctified.
15 The Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,
16 "This is the covenant I will make with them
            after those days, says the Lord,
     I will put my laws on their heart,
            and on their minds I will write them."
17 Then he says,
     "Their sins and their lawless deeds
            I will remember no more."
18 Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no more
offering for sin.

19 Therefore, brothers, having confidence to enter the
sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,
20 by the new and living way that he opened up for us,
through the curtain, that is, his flesh,
21 and since we have such a great priest over the house of God;
22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of
faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil
conscience, and having our body washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold tight to the confession of our hope without
wavering; for he who made the promise is faithful.
24 Let us consider how to motivate one another to love and
good works.
25 Not neglecting our own assembling together, as is
the habit of some, but encouraging each other all the
more as you see the day drawing near.
26 For if we sin deliberately after we have received the
knowledge of the truth, there is no more sacrifice for
sins left for us,
27 but only a certain dreadful expectation of judgment,
and a furious fire that will devour the enemies.
28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death
without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
29 How much worse punishment do you think someone deserves
who has walked all over the Son of God, and has profaned
the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified,
and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him who said, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay."
And again, "The Lord will judge his people."
31 It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the
living God.
32 But recall the former days, when you were enlightened,
you endured a great conflict with sufferings.
33 Sometimes you were publically exposed to insults and
persecutions; and sometimes sharing with those who were
treated that way.
34 For you showed sympathy on those who were in bonds, and
joyfully accepted the plundering of you possessions, knowing
that you had a better and more lasting possession.
35 Therefore do not throw away your confidence, it results
in a rich reward.
36 For you need endurance, so that having done the will
of God, you may receive the promise.
37 For "in just a little while, the one coming will come,
and will not delay.
38 But my righteous one will live by faith. And if he
shrinks back, I take no pleasure in him."
39 But we are not among those who shrink back and perish;
but among those who have faith to the preserving of their souls.

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