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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Hebrews 10 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/hebrews/10.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/hebrews/10-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Hebrews 10</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../hebrews/9.htm" title="Hebrews 9">◄</a> Hebrews 10 <a href="../hebrews/11.htm" title="Hebrews 11">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="par"><span class="v58_10_1"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.1" class="v58_10_1">1</span>The Jewish Law is not a full and faithful model of the real things; it is only a faint outline of the good things to come. The same sacrifices are offered forever, year after year. How can the Law, then, by means of these sacrifices make perfect the people who come to God? </span><span class="v58_10_2"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.2" class="v58_10_2">2</span>If the people worshiping God had really been purified from their sins, they would not feel guilty of sin any more, and all sacrifices would stop. </span><span class="v58_10_3"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.3" class="v58_10_3">3</span>As it is, however, the sacrifices serve year after year to remind people of their sins. </span><span class="v58_10_4"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.4" class="v58_10_4">4</span>For the blood of bulls and goats can never take away sins.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v58_10_5"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.5" class="v58_10_5">5</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Heb.10.5!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> For this reason, when Christ was about to come into the world, he said to God:</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v58_10_5">“You do not want sacrifices and offerings,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v58_10_5">but you have prepared a body for me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v58_10_6"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.6" class="v58_10_6">6</span>You are not pleased with animals burned whole on the altar</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v58_10_6">or with sacrifices to take away sins.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v58_10_7"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.7" class="v58_10_7">7</span>Then I said, ‘Here I am,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v58_10_7">to do your will, O God,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v58_10_7">just as it is written of me in the book of the Law.’”</span></p><p class="m"><span class="v58_10_8"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.8" class="v58_10_8">8</span>First he said, “You neither want nor are you pleased with sacrifices and offerings or with animals burned on the altar and the sacrifices to take away sins.” He said this even though all these sacrifices are offered according to the Law. </span><span class="v58_10_9"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.9" class="v58_10_9">9</span>Then he said, “Here I am, O God, to do your will.” So God does away with all the old sacrifices and puts the sacrifice of Christ in their place. </span><span class="v58_10_10"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.10" class="v58_10_10">10</span>Because Jesus Christ did what God wanted him to do, we are all purified from sin by the offering that he made of his own body once and for all.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v58_10_11"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.11" class="v58_10_11">11</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Heb.10.11!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Every Jewish priest performs his services every day and offers the same sacrifices many times; but these sacrifices can never take away sins. </span><span class="v58_10_12"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.12" class="v58_10_12">12</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Heb.10.12!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Christ, however, offered one sacrifice for sins, an offering that is effective forever, and then he sat down at the right side of God. </span><span class="v58_10_13"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.13" class="v58_10_13">13</span>There he now waits until God puts his enemies as a footstool under his feet. </span><span class="v58_10_14"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.14" class="v58_10_14">14</span>With one sacrifice, then, he has made perfect forever those who are purified from sin.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v58_10_15"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.15" class="v58_10_15">15</span>And the Holy Spirit also gives us his witness. First he says,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v58_10_16"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.16" class="v58_10_16">16</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Heb.10.16!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “This is the covenant that I will make with them</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v58_10_16">in the days to come, says the Lord:</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v58_10_16">I will put my laws in their hearts</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v58_10_16">and write them on their minds.”</span></p><p class="m"><span class="v58_10_17"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.17" class="v58_10_17">17</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Heb.10.17!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> And then he says, “I will not remember their sins and evil deeds any longer.” </span><span class="v58_10_18"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.18" class="v58_10_18">18</span>So when these have been forgiven, an offering to take away sins is no longer needed.</span></p><h3 class="s">Let Us Come Near to God</h3><p class="par"><span class="v58_10_19"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.19" class="v58_10_19">19</span>We have, then, my friends, complete freedom to go into the Most Holy Place by means of the death of Jesus. </span><span class="v58_10_20"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.20" class="v58_10_20">20</span>He opened for us a new way, a living way, through the curtain—that is, through his own body. </span><span class="v58_10_21"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.21" class="v58_10_21">21</span>We have a great priest in charge of the house of God. </span><span class="v58_10_22"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.22" class="v58_10_22">22</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Heb.10.22!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> So let us come near to God with a sincere heart and a sure faith, with hearts that have been purified from a guilty conscience and with bodies washed with clean water. </span><span class="v58_10_23"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.23" class="v58_10_23">23</span>Let us hold on firmly to the hope we profess, because we can trust God to keep his promise. </span><span class="v58_10_24"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.24" class="v58_10_24">24</span>Let us be concerned for one another, to help one another to show love and to do good. </span><span class="v58_10_25"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.25" class="v58_10_25">25</span>Let us not give up the habit of meeting together, as some are doing. Instead, let us encourage one another all the more, since you see that the Day of the Lord is coming nearer.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v58_10_26"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.26" class="v58_10_26">26</span>For there is no longer any sacrifice that will take away sins if we purposely go on sinning after the truth has been made known to us. </span><span class="v58_10_27"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.27" class="v58_10_27">27</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Heb.10.27!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Instead, all that is left is to wait in fear for the coming Judgment and the fierce fire which will destroy those who oppose God! </span><span class="v58_10_28"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.28" class="v58_10_28">28</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Heb.10.28!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Anyone who disobeys the Law of Moses is put to death without any mercy when judged guilty from the evidence of two or more witnesses. </span><span class="v58_10_29"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.29" class="v58_10_29">29</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Heb.10.29!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> What, then, of those who despise the Son of God? who treat as a cheap thing the blood of God's covenant which purified them from sin? who insult the Spirit of grace? Just think how much worse is the punishment they will deserve! </span><span class="v58_10_30"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.30" class="v58_10_30">30</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Heb.10.30!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> For we know who said, “I will take revenge, I will repay”; and who also said, “The Lord will judge his people.” </span><span class="v58_10_31"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.31" class="v58_10_31">31</span>It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God!</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v58_10_32"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.32" class="v58_10_32">32</span>Remember how it was with you in the past. In those days, after God's light had shone on you, you suffered many things, yet were not defeated by the struggle. </span><span class="v58_10_33"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.33" class="v58_10_33">33</span>You were at times publicly insulted and mistreated, and at other times you were ready to join those who were being treated in this way. </span><span class="v58_10_34"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.34" class="v58_10_34">34</span>You shared the sufferings of prisoners, and when all your belongings were seized, you endured your loss gladly, because you knew that you still possessed something much better, which would last forever. </span><span class="v58_10_35"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.35" class="v58_10_35">35</span>Do not lose your courage, then, because it brings with it a great reward. </span><span class="v58_10_36"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.36" class="v58_10_36">36</span>You need to be patient, in order to do the will of God and receive what he promises. </span><span class="v58_10_37"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.37" class="v58_10_37">37</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Heb.10.37!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> For, as the scripture says,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v58_10_37">“Just a little while longer,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v58_10_37">and he who is coming will come;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v58_10_37">he will not delay.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v58_10_38"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.38" class="v58_10_38">38</span>My righteous people, however, will believe and live;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v58_10_38">but if any of them turns back,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v58_10_38">I will not be pleased with them.”</span></p><p class="m"><span class="v58_10_39"><span class="reftext" id="Heb.10.39" class="v58_10_39">39</span>We are not people who turn back and are lost. 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