Heb 10
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For the law having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the
things; by the selfsame sacrifices which they offer continually every year, can never
make the comers thereunto perfect:
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For then they would have ceased to be offered: because the worshippers once cleansed
should have no conscience of sin any longer:
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But in them there is made a commemoration of sins every year.
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For it is impossible that with the blood of oxen and goats sin should be taken away.
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Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith: Sacrifice and oblation thou wouldest
not: but a body thou hast fitted to me:
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Holocausts for sin did not please thee.
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Then said I: Behold I come: in the head of the book it is written of me: that I should
do thy will, O God.
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In saying before, Sacrifices, and oblations, and holocausts for sin thou wouldest
not, neither are they pleasing to thee, which are offered according to the law.
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Then said I: Behold, I come to do thy will, O God: he taketh away the first, that
he may establish that which followeth.
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In the which will, we are sanctified by the oblation of the body of Jesus Christ once.
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And every priest indeed standeth daily ministering, and often offering the same sacrifices,
which can never take away sins.
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But this man offering one sacrifice for sins, for ever sitteth on the right hand of
God,
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From henceforth expecting, until his enemies be made his footstool.
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For by one oblation he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
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And the Holy Ghost also doth testify this to us. For after that he said:
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And this is the testament which I will make unto them after those days, saith the
Lord. I will give my laws in their hearts, and on their minds will I write them:
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And their sins and iniquities I will remember no more.
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Now where there is a remission of these, there is no more an oblation for sin.
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Having therefore, brethren, a confidence in the entering into the holies by the blood
of Christ;
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A new and living way which he hath dedicated for us through the veil, that is to say,
his flesh,
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And a high priest over the house of God:
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Let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled
from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with clean water.
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Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering (for he is faithful that
hath promised),
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And let us consider one another, to provoke unto charity and to good works:
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Not forsaking our assembly, as some are accustomed; but comforting one another, and
so much the more as you see the day approaching.
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For if we sin wilfully after having the knowledge of the truth, there is now left
no sacrifice for sins,
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But a certain dreadful expectation of judgment, and the rage of a fire which shall
consume the adversaries.
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A man making void the law of Moses, dieth without any mercy under two or three witnesses:
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How much more, do you think he deserveth worse punishments, who hath trodden under
foot the Son of God, and hath esteemed the blood of the testament unclean, by which
he was sanctified, and hath offered an affront to the Spirit of grace?
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For we know him that hath said: Vengeance belongeth to me, and I will repay. And again:
The Lord shall judge his people.
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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 mind the former days, wherein, being illuminated, you endured a great
fight of afflictions.
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And on the one hand indeed, by reproaches and tribulations, were made a gazingstock;
and on the other, became companions of them that were used in such sort.
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For you both had compassion on them that were in bands, and took with joy the being
stripped of your own goods, knowing that you have a better and a lasting substance.
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Do not therefore lose your confidence, which hath a great reward.
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For patience is necessary for you; that, doing the will of God, you may receive the
promise.
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For yet a little and a very little while, and he that is to come, will come, and will
not delay.
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But my just man liveth by faith; but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please my
soul.
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But we are not the children of withdrawing unto perdition, but of faith to the saving
of the soul.