HEBREWS CHAPTER X.

[1 The law-sacrifices ineffectual to take away sins. 10 By the offering of Christ's body once we obtain perfect remission.] 


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: 
6 In burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast 
had no pleasure. 
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the 
book it is written of me) to do thy will, O God. 
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; 
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. 
He taketh away the first, that he may establish the 
second. 
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; 
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember 
no more. 
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 vail, 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 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. 
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, while ye were made a gazing-stock
both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, while
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 recompense 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. 
38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man
draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. 
39 But we are not of them who draw back unto 
perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of 
the soul.    

HEBREWS CHAPTER IX.

[1 By the imperfection of the legal sacrifices, 11 he sheweth the efficacy of 
the blood of Christ. 16 The necessity of Christ's death.] 

THEN verily the first covenant had also ordinances
of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. 
2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first 
wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and 
the shew-bread; which is called the sanctuary. 
3 And after the second vail, the tabernacle which 
is called the Holiest of all;
4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of 
the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein
was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's
rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing 
the mercy-seat; of which we cannot now speak particularly. 
6 Now when these things were thus ordained, 
the priests went always into the first tabernacle, 
accomplishing the service of God:
7 But into the second went the high priest alone
once every year, not without blood, which he offered 
for himself, and for the errors of the people:
8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way
into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, 
while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
9 Which was a figure for the time then present, 
in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that 
could not make him that did the service perfect, as 
pertaining to the conscience; 
10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and 
divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed
on them until the time of reformation.
11 But Christ being come an high priest of good 
things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, 
not made with hands, that is to say, not of this 
building;
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but 
by his own blood, he entered in once into the holy
place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and 
the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth
to the purifying of the flesh:
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, 
who through the eternal Spirit offered himself
without spot to God, purge your conscience from 
dead works to serve the living God?
15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the 
new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption
of the transgressions that were under the 
first testament, they which are called might receive 
the promise of eternal inheritance. 
16 For where a testament is, there must also of 
necessity be the death of the testator. 
17 For a testament is of force after men are 
dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the 
testator liveth. 
18 Whereupon neither the first testament was 
dedicated without blood.
19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to 
all the people according to the law, he took the 
blood of calves and of goats, with water and scarlet 
wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book 
and all the people.
20 Say, This is the blood of the testament
which God hath enjoined unto you.
21 Moreover, he sprinkled with blood both the 
tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. 
22 And almost all things are by the law purged
with blood; and without shedding of blood is no 
remission.
23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns 
of things in the heavens should be purified with 
these; but the heavenly things themselves with 
better sacrifices than these. 
24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places
made with hands, which are the figures of the true; 
but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence
of God for us:
25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as 
the high priest entirety into the holy place every 
year with blood of others;
26 For then must he often have suffered since 
the foundation of the world: but now once in the 
end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin
by the sacrifice of himself.
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die,
but after this the judgment:
28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of 
many; and unto them that look for him shall he 
appear the second time without sin unto salvation.  

HEBREWS CHAPTER VIII.

[1 The excellency of Christ's ministry, 6 being the mediator of a better covenant.]

NOW of the things which we have spoken this is 
the sum: We have such an high priest, who 
is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty 
in the heavens;
2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true
tabernacle which the Lord pitched, and not man. 
3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts
and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this 
man have somewhat also to offer. 
4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a 
priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts 
according to the law:
5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of 
heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God
when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See
(saith he) that thou  make all things according to the 
pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent 
ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a 
better covenant, which was established upon better 
promises.
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then
should no place have been sought for the second. 
8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold 
the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a 
new covenant with the house of Israel and with the 
house of Judah:
9 Not according to the covenant that I made with 
their fathers, in the day when I took them by the
hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because
they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded 
them not, saith the Lord.
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with 
the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord;
I will put my laws into their mind, and write them
in their hearts: and  I will be to them a God, and 
they shall be to me a people:
11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbor,
and every man his brother, saying, Know the 
Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the 
greatest. 
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness,
and their sins and their iniquities will I remember 
no more. 
13 In that he saith, A new covenant,  he hath made 
the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth 
old, is ready to vanish away.