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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/hebrews/10.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The old system under the law of Moses was only a shadow, a dim preview of the good things to come, not the good things themselves. The sacrifices under that system were repeated again and again, year after year, but they were never able to provide perfect cleansing for those who came to worship. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>If they could have provided perfect cleansing, the sacrifices would have stopped, for the worshipers would have been purified once for all time, and their feelings of guilt would have disappeared.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But instead, those sacrifices actually reminded them of their sins year after year. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>That is why, when Christ<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> came into the world, he said to God,</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1">“You did not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings.</p><p class="line2">But you have given me a body to offer.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>You were not pleased with burnt offerings</p><p class="line2">or other offerings for sin.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then I said, ‘Look, I have come to do your will, O God—</p><p class="line2">as is written about me in the Scriptures.’”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a></p><p class="b"/><p class="m"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>First, Christ said, “You did not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings or burnt offerings or other offerings for sin, nor were you pleased with them” (though they are required by the law of Moses). <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then he said, “Look, I have come to do your will.” He cancels the first covenant in order to put the second into effect. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For God’s will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Under the old covenant, the priest stands and ministers before the altar day after day, offering the same sacrifices again and again, which can never take away sins. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But our High Priest offered himself to God as a single sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then he sat down in the place of honor at God’s right hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>There he waits until his enemies are humbled and made a footstool under his feet. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For by that one offering he forever made perfect those who are being made holy.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the Holy Spirit also testifies that this is so. For he says,</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“This is the new covenant I will make</p><p class="line2">with my people on that day,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> says the LORD:</p><p class="line1">I will put my laws in their hearts,</p><p class="line2">and I will write them on their minds.”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a></p><p class="b"/><p class="m"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then he says,</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1">“I will never again remember</p><p class="line2">their sins and lawless deeds.”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a></p><p class="b"/><p class="m"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And when sins have been forgiven, there is no need to offer any more sacrifices.</p><p class="hdg">A Call to Persevere</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And so, dear brothers and sisters,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a> we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>By his death,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">g</span></a> Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God’s house, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting him. For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ’s blood to make us clean, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>There is only the terrible expectation of God’s judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>For anyone who refused to obey the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Just think how much worse the punishment will be for those who have trampled on the Son of God, and have treated the blood of the covenant, which made us holy, as if it were common and unholy, and have insulted and disdained the Holy Spirit who brings God’s mercy to us. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>For we know the one who said,</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1">“I will take revenge.</p><p class="line2">I will pay them back.”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">h</span></a></p><p class="b"/><p class="m">He also said,</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1">“The LORD will judge his own people.”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">i</span></a></p><p class="b"/><p class="m"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Think back on those early days when you first learned about Christ.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">j</span></a> Remember how you remained faithful even though it meant terrible suffering. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Sometimes you were exposed to public ridicule and were beaten, and sometimes you helped others who were suffering the same things. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>You suffered along with those who were thrown into jail, and when all you owned was taken from you, you accepted it with joy. You knew there were better things waiting for you that will last forever.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God’s will. Then you will receive all that he has promised.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>“For in just a little while,</p><p class="line2">the Coming One will come and not delay.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And my righteous ones will live by faith.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">k</span></a></p><p class="line2">But I will take no pleasure in anyone who turns away.”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">l</span></a></p><p class="b"/><p class="m"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>But we are not like those who turn away from God to their own destruction. We are the faithful ones, whose souls will be saved.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:5 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">he;</span><span class="ft"> also in 10:8.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:5-7 </span><span class="ft">Ps 40:6-8 (Greek version).</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:16a </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">after those days.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:16b </span><span class="ft">Jer 31:33a.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:17 </span><span class="ft">Jer 31:34b.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:19 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">brothers.</span><br><span class="fn">g</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:20 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">Through his flesh.</span><br><span class="fn">h</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:30a </span><span class="ft">Deut 32:35.</span><br><span class="fn">i</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:30b </span><span class="ft">Deut 32:36.</span><br><span class="fn">j</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:32 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">when you were first enlightened.</span><br><span class="fn">k</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:38 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">my righteous ones will live by their faithfulness;</span><span class="ft"> Greek reads </span><span class="it">my righteous one will live by faith.</span><br><span class="fn">l</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">10:37-38 </span><span class="ft">Hab 2:3-4.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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