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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 ISV</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> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="../">ISV</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">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/hebrews/10.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Law is a Reflection</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>For the Law, being only<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:1 The Gk. lacks only">a</a></span> a reflection<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:1 Or shadow">b</a></span> of the blessings to come and not their substance, can never make perfect those who come near by the same sacrifices repeatedly offered year after year. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Otherwise, would they not have stopped offering them, because the worshipers, cleansed once for all, would no longer be aware of any sins? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Instead, through those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>for it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.</p> <p class="heading">The Messiah Offered One Sacrifice</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For this reason, the Scriptures<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:5 The Gk. lacks the Scriptures">c</a></span> say, when the Messiah<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:5 Lit. when he">d</a></span> was about to come into the world:</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop">“You did not want sacrifices and offerings,</p> <p class="poetry2">but you prepared a body for me.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>In burnt offerings and sin offerings</p> <p class="poetry2">you never took delight.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then I said, ‘See, I have come to do your will, O God’</p> <p class="poetry2 marginbot">In the volume of the scroll this is written about me.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:7 Cf. Ps 40:6-8">e</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>In this passage he says, “You never wanted or took delight in sacrifices, offerings, burnt offerings, and sin offerings,”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:8 Cf. Ps 40:6">f</a></span> which are offered according to the Law. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then he says, “See, I have come to do your will.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:9 Cf. Ps 40:7">g</a></span> He takes away the first in order to establish the second. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>By God’s will we have been sanctified once and for all through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus, the Messiah.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:10 Or Christ">h</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Day after day every priest stands and repeatedly offers the same sacrifices that can never take away sins. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But when this priest<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:12 Lit. this one">i</a></span> had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, “he sat down at the right hand of God.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:12 Cf. Ps 110:1">j</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Since that time, he has been waiting for his enemies to be made a footstool for his feet. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The Holy Spirit also assures us of this, for he said:</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“This is the covenant that I will make with them</p> <p class="poetry2">after those days, declares the Lord:<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:16 MT source citation reads LORD">k</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">I will put my laws in their hearts</p> <p class="poetry2">and will write them on their minds,</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>and I will never again remember their sins</p> <p class="poetry2 marginbot">and their lawless deeds.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:17 Jer 31:34">l</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Now where there is forgiveness of these sins,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:18 Lit. of these things">m</a></span> there is no longer any offering for sin.</p> <p class="heading">How We Should Live</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Therefore, my brothers, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain (that is, through his flesh), <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 over the household of God, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>let us continue to come near with sincere hearts in the full assurance that faith provides, because our hearts have been sprinkled clean from a guilty conscience, and our bodies have been washed with pure water. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Let us continue to hold firmly to the hope that we confess without wavering, for the one who made the promise is faithful. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And let us continue to consider how to motivate one another to love and good deeds, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another even more as you see the day of the Lord<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:25 The Gk. lacks of the Lord">n</a></span> coming nearer.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For if we choose to go on sinning after we have learned the full truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>but only a terrifying prospect of judgment and a raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:27 The Gk. lacks of God">o</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Anyone who violates the Law of Moses dies without mercy “on the testimony of two or three witnesses.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:28 Cf. Deut 17:6">p</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>How much more severe a punishment do you think that person deserves who tramples on God’s Son, treats as common the blood of the covenant by which it<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:29 Or he">q</a></span> was sanctified, and insults the Spirit of grace? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>For we know the one who said, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will pay them back,”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:30 Cf. Deut 32:35">r</a></span> and again, “The Lord<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:30 MT source citation reads LORD">s</a></span> will judge his people.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:30 Cf. Deut 32:36; Ps 135:14">t</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>It is a terrifying 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>But you must continue to remember those earlier days, how after you were enlightened you endured a hard and painful struggle. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>At times you were made a public spectacle by means of insults and persecutions, while at other times you associated with people who were treated this way. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>For you sympathized<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:34 Or suffered">u</a></span> with the prisoners and cheerfully submitted to the violent seizure of your property, because you know that you have a better and more permanent possession.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>So don’t lose your confidence, since it holds a great reward for you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will you can receive what he has promised. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>For</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop">“in a very little while</p> <p class="poetry2">the one who is coming will return—</p> <p class="poetry2">he will not delay;</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>but my righteous one will live by faith,</p> <p class="poetry2">and if he turns back,</p> <p class="poetry2 marginbot">my soul will take no pleasure in him.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:38 Cf. Isa 26:20 (LXX); Hab 2:3-4 (LXX)">v</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Now, we do not belong to those who turn back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 10:1 The Gk. lacks <i>only</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 10:1 Or <i>shadow</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 10:5 The Gk. lacks <i>the Scriptures</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 10:5 Lit. <i>when he</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 10:7 Cf. Ps 40:6-8<br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 10:8 Cf. Ps 40:6<br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 10:9 Cf. Ps 40:7<br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 10:10 Or <i>Christ</i><br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 10:12 Lit. <i>this one</i><br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 10:12 Cf. Ps 110:1<br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 10:16 MT source citation reads <i>LORD</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 10:17 Jer 31:34<br /><span class="fnb">m</span> 10:18 Lit. <i>of these things</i><br /><span class="fnb">n</span> 10:25 The Gk. lacks <i>of the Lord</i><br /><span class="fnb">o</span> 10:27 The Gk. lacks <i>of God</i><br /><span class="fnb">p</span> 10:28 Cf. Deut 17:6<br /><span class="fnb">q</span> 10:29 Or <i>he</i><br /><span class="fnb">r</span> 10:30 Cf. Deut 32:35<br /><span class="fnb">s</span> 10:30 MT source citation reads <i>LORD</i><br /><span class="fnb">t</span> 10:30 Cf. Deut 32:36; Ps 135:14<br /><span class="fnb">u</span> 10:34 Or <i>suffered</i><br /><span class="fnb">v</span> 10:38 Cf. 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