Hebrews 10
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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.
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For then would they not have ceased to be
offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no
more conscience of sins.
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But in those sacrifices there is a
remembrance again made of sins every year.
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For it is not possible that the
blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
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Wherefore, when he cometh into the
world, he saith,
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Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, |
but a body hast thou prepared
me: |
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in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
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Then said I, Lo, I come
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(in the volume of the book it is written of
me) |
to do thy will, O God. Ps.
40.6-8 |
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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;
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then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will,
O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the
second.
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By the which will we are sanctified
through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for
all.
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And every priest standeth daily
ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can
never take away sins: Ex. 29.38
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but this man, after he had offered one
sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of
God;
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from henceforth expecting till his
enemies be made his footstool. Ps. 110.1
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For by one offering he hath perfected for
ever them that are sanctified.
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Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a
witness to us: for after that he had said before,
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This is the covenant that I will
make with them
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after those days, saith the Lord; |
I will put my laws into their hearts, |
and in their minds will I write them; Jer.
31.33 |
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and their sins and iniquities will I
remember no more. Jer. 31.34
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Now where remission of these is, there
is no more offering for sin.
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Let Us Draw Near and
Hold Fast |
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Having therefore, brethren, boldness to
enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
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by a new and living way, which he hath
consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his
flesh;
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and having a high priest over the
house of God;
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let us draw near with a true heart in
full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled Lev. 8.30 · Ezek. 36.25 from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure
water. Lev. 8.6
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Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; for he is faithful that
promised;
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and let us consider one another to
provoke unto love and to good works:
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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.
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For if we sin wilfully after that we
have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more
sacrifice for sins,
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but a certain fearful looking for of
judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. Is.
26.11
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He that despised Moses' law died without
mercy under two or three witnesses: Deut. 17.6 ; 19.15
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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, Ex. 24.8 wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done
despite unto the Spirit of grace?
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For we know him that hath said,
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Vengeance belongeth unto me, |
I will recompense, saith the Lord. Deut.
32.35 |
And again, |
The Lord shall judge his people. Deut.
32.36 |
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It is a fearful thing to fall into
the hands of the living God.
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But call to remembrance the former
days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight
of afflictions;
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partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock
both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became
companions of them that were so used.
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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.
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Cast not away therefore your confidence,
which hath great recompense of reward.
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For ye have need of patience, that, after
ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the
promise.
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For yet a little while,
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and he that shall come will come, and will not
tarry. |
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Now the just shall live by faith:
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but if any man draw back, |
my soul shall have no pleasure in him. Hab.
2.3, 4 |
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But we are not of them who draw back unto
perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the
soul.
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