Hebrews 10

¹For the law having a shadow of good things to come, not the very image of the things: every year with the self-same hosts which they offer incessantly, can never make the comers thereto perfect:

²otherwise they should have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers once cleansed should have no conscience of sin any longer.

³But in them there is made a commemoration of sin every year.

⁴For it is impossible that with the blood of oxen and goats sins should be taken away.

⁵Therefore coming into the world he saith: Host and oblation thou wouldest not: but a body thou hast fitted to me:

⁶Holocausts and for sin did not please thee.

⁷Then said I, Behold I come: in the head of the book it is written of me: That I may do thy will, o God.

⁸Saying before, Because hosts and oblations & holocausts, & for sin thou wouldest not, neither did they please thee, which are offered according to the law,

⁹then said I, Behold I come that I may do thy will, o God: he taketh away the first, that he may establish that that followeth.

¹⁰In the which will, we are sanctified by the oblation of the body of Jesus Christ once.

¹¹And every Priest indeed is ready daily ministering, and often offering the same hosts, which can never take away sins:

¹²but this man offering one host for sins, for ever sitteth on the right hand of God,

¹³hence-forth expecting, until his enemies be put the foot-stool of his feet.

¹⁴For by one oblation hath he consummated for ever them that are sanctified.

¹⁵And the Holy Ghost also doth testify to us. For after that he said:

¹⁶And this is the Testament which I will make to them after those days, saith our Lord, giving my laws in their hearts, and in their minds will I superscribe them:

¹⁷and their sins and iniquities I will now remember no more.

¹⁸But where there is remission of these, now there is not an oblation for sins.

¹⁹Having therefore, brethren, confidence in the entering of the Holies in the blood of Christ:

²⁰which he hath dedicated to us a new & living way by the veil, that is, his flesh,

²¹and a high Priest over the house of God,

²²let us approach with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from evil conscience, and our body washed with clean water.

²³Let us hold the confession of our hope undeclining (for he is faithful that hath promised)

²⁴and let us consider one another unto the provocation of charity and of good works:

²⁵not forsaking our assembly as some are accustomed, but comforting, and so much the more as you see the day approaching.

²⁶For if we sin willingly after the knowledge of the truth received, now there is not left an host for sins,

²⁷but a certain terrible expectation of judgement & rage of fire, which shall consume the adversaries.

²⁸Aman making the Law of Moyses frustrate, without any mercy dieth under two or three witnesses.

²⁹How much more think you, doth he deserve worse punishments which hath trodden the Son of God under-foot, and esteemed the blood of the testament polluted, wherein he is sanctified, and hath done contumely to the spirit of grace?

³⁰For we know him that said, Revenge to me, I will repay. And again, That our Lord will judge his people.

³¹It is horrible to fall into the hands of the living God.

³²But call to mind the old days: wherein being illuminated, you sustained a great fight of passions.

³³And on the one part certes by reproaches and tribulations made a spectacle; & on the other part made companions of them that conversed in such sort.

³⁴For, you both had compassion on them that were in bonds: and the spoil of your own goods you took with joy, knowing that you have a better and a permanent substance.

³⁵Do not therefore leese your confidence, which hath a great remuneration.

³⁶For patience is necessary for you: that doing the will of God, you may receive the promise.

³⁷For yet a little and a very little while, he that is to come, will come, and will not slack.

³⁸And my just liveth of faith: but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please my soul.

³⁹But we are not the children of withdrawing unto perdition: but of faith to the winning of the soul.