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. |
3 | But in those
sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. |
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:
Psa 40:6
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6 |
In burnt offerings and
sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
Psa 40:6
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7 |
Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is
written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Psa 40:7
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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;
Psa 40:6
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9 | Then said he,
Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh
away the first, that he may establish the second.
Psa 40:7
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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; |
13 | From henceforth
expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. |
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, |
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;
Jer 31:33
Heb 8:10
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17 |
And their sins and iniquities
will I remember no more.
Jer 31:34
Heb 8:12
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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; |
21 | 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;) |
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? |
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.
Deut 32:35,36
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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; |
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. |
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. |
37 | For yet a little while, and
he that shall come
will come, and will not tarry.
Hab 2:3
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38
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Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul
shall have no pleasure in him.
Hab 2:4
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39
| But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that
believe to the saving of the soul. |