Hebrews 10

1For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.Cross-references: Col 2:17 · Heb 7:18 · Heb 8:5 · Heb 9:8 · Heb 9:11 · Heb 9:23 · +3 more

2Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?Cross-references: Ps 103:12 · Isa 43:25 · Isa 44:22 · Mic 7:19 · Heb 9:13 · Heb 10:17

3But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins.Cross-references: Ex 30:10 · Lev 16:6 · Lev 16:21 · Lev 16:29 · Lev 16:34 · Lev 23:27 · +4 more

4For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.Cross-references: Ps 50:8 · Ps 51:16 · Isa 1:11 · Isa 66:3 · Jer 6:20 · Jer 7:21 · +12 more

5Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me.Cross-references: Gen 3:15 · Ps 40:6 · Ps 50:8 · Isa 1:11 · Isa 7:14 · Jer 6:20 · +17 more

6You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.Cross-references: Lev 1:1 · Ps 147:11 · Mal 1:10 · Matt 3:17 · Eph 5:2 · Phil 4:18 · +1 more

7Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’”Cross-references: Gen 3:15 · Ps 40:7 · Prov 8:31 · Jer 36:2 · John 4:34 · John 5:30 · +2 more

8Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in them” (those which are offered according to the law),Cross-references: Mark 12:33 · Heb 10:5

9then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,Cross-references: Heb 7:18 · Heb 8:7 · Heb 9:11 · Heb 10:7 · Heb 12:27

10by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.Cross-references: Zech 13:1 · John 17:19 · John 19:34 · 1Cor 1:30 · 1Cor 6:11 · Heb 2:11 · +12 more

11Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,Cross-references: Ex 29:38 · Num 28:3 · Num 28:24 · Num 29:6 · Ps 50:8 · Isa 1:11 · +11 more

12but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God,Cross-references: Acts 2:33 · Rom 8:34 · Col 3:1 · Heb 1:3 · Heb 8:1 · Heb 9:12

13from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.Cross-references: Ps 110:1 · Dan 2:44 · Matt 22:44 · Mark 12:36 · Luke 20:43 · Acts 2:35 · +2 more

14For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.Cross-references: Acts 20:32 · Acts 26:13 · Rom 15:16 · 1Cor 1:2 · Eph 5:26 · Heb 2:11 · +8 more

15The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,Cross-references: 2Sam 23:2 · Neh 9:30 · John 15:26 · Acts 28:25 · Heb 2:3 · Heb 3:7 · +11 more

16“This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days,” says the Lord, “I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;” then he says,Cross-references: Jer 31:33 · Rom 11:27 · Heb 8:8

17“I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more.”Cross-references: Jer 31:34 · Heb 8:12

18Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.Cross-references: Heb 10:2 · Heb 10:14

19Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,Cross-references: Rom 5:2 · Rom 8:15 · Gal 4:6 · Eph 2:18 · Eph 3:12 · 2Tim 1:7 · +10 more

20by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh,Cross-references: Ex 26:31 · Ex 36:35 · Lev 16:2 · Lev 16:15 · Lev 21:23 · Matt 27:51 · +14 more

21and having a great priest over God’s house,Cross-references: Matt 16:18 · 1Cor 3:9 · 2Cor 6:16 · Eph 2:19 · 1Tim 3:15 · Heb 2:17 · +6 more

22let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our body washed with pure water,Cross-references: Ex 29:4 · Lev 8:6 · Lev 14:7 · Num 8:7 · Num 19:18 · 1Ki 15:3 · +55 more

23let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.Cross-references: 1Cor 1:9 · 1Cor 10:13 · 1Thess 5:24 · 2Thess 3:3 · Titus 1:2 · Heb 3:6 · +6 more

24Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,Cross-references: Ps 41:1 · Prov 29:7 · Acts 11:29 · Rom 11:4 · Rom 12:15 · Rom 15:1 · +22 more

25not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.Cross-references: Matt 18:20 · Matt 24:33 · Mark 13:29 · John 20:19 · Acts 1:13 · Acts 2:1 · +22 more

26For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,Cross-references: Lev 4:2 · Lev 4:13 · Num 15:28 · Deut 17:12 · Ps 19:12 · Dan 5:22 · +12 more

27but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.Cross-references: Num 16:35 · Deut 32:43 · 1Sam 28:19 · Ps 21:9 · Ps 68:1 · Isa 26:11 · +33 more

28A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.Cross-references: Num 15:30 · Num 15:36 · Deut 13:6 · Deut 17:2 · Deut 19:13 · Deut 19:15 · +10 more

29How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?Cross-references: 2Ki 9:33 · Ps 91:13 · Ps 143:10 · Isa 14:19 · Isa 28:3 · Isa 63:10 · +26 more

30For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me. I will repay,” says the Lord. Again, “The Lord will judge his people.”Cross-references: Deut 32:35 · Ps 50:4 · Ps 94:1 · Ps 96:13 · Ps 98:9 · Ps 135:14 · +9 more

31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.Cross-references: Ps 50:22 · Ps 76:7 · Ps 90:11 · Isa 33:14 · Matt 10:28 · Matt 16:16 · +4 more

32But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings:Cross-references: Acts 8:1 · Acts 9:1 · Acts 26:18 · 2Cor 4:6 · Gal 3:3 · Phil 1:29 · +9 more

33partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions, and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.Cross-references: Ps 69:9 · Ps 71:7 · Ps 74:22 · Ps 79:12 · Ps 89:51 · Isa 51:7 · +12 more

34For you both had compassion on me in my chains and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.Cross-references: Matt 5:11 · Matt 6:19 · Matt 19:21 · Luke 10:42 · Luke 12:33 · Acts 5:41 · +18 more

35Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.Cross-references: Ps 19:11 · Matt 5:12 · Matt 10:32 · Matt 10:42 · Luke 14:14 · 1Cor 15:58 · +6 more

36For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.Cross-references: Ps 37:7 · Ps 40:1 · Matt 7:21 · Matt 10:22 · Matt 12:50 · Matt 21:31 · +30 more

37“In a very little while, he who comes will come and will not wait.Cross-references: Isa 26:20 · Isa 60:22 · Hab 2:3 · Matt 11:3 · Luke 18:8 · James 5:7 · +2 more

38But the righteous one will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”Cross-references: Ps 5:4 · Ps 85:8 · Ps 147:11 · Ps 149:4 · Isa 42:1 · Ezek 3:20 · +14 more

39But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.Cross-references: 1Sam 15:11 · Ps 44:18 · Prov 1:32 · Prov 14:14 · Mark 16:16 · Luke 11:26 · +21 more