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Text -- Hebrews 10:1-23 (NET)
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Concluding Exposition: Old and New Sacrifices Contrasted
10:1 For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself , and is therefore completely unable , by the same sacrifices offered continually , year after year , to perfect those who come to worship .
10:2 For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered , since the worshipers would have been purified once for all and so have no further consciousness of sin ?
10:3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year .
10:4 For the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sins .
10:5 So when he came into the world , he said , “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire , but a body you prepared for me .
10:6 “Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no delight in .
10:7 “Then I said , ‘Here I am: I have come – it is written of me in the scroll of the book – to do your will , O God .’”
10:8 When he says above , “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them” (which are offered according to the law ),
10:9 then he says , “Here I am: I have come to do your will .” He does away with the first to establish the second .
10:10 By his will we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all .
10:11 And every priest stands day after day serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again – sacrifices that can never take away sins .
10:12 But when this priest had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time , he sat down at the right hand of God ,
10:13 where he is now waiting until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet .
10:14 For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy .
10:15 And the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us , for after saying ,
10:16 “This is the covenant that I will establish with them after those days , says the Lord . I will put my laws on their hearts and I will inscribe them on their minds ,”
10:17 then he says, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no longer .”
10:18 Now where there is forgiveness of these , there is no longer any offering for sin .
Drawing Near to God in Enduring Faith
10:19 Therefore , brothers and sisters , since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus ,
10:20 by the fresh and living way that he inaugurated for us through the curtain , that is , through his flesh ,
10:21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God ,
10:22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings, because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water .
10:23 And let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we confess , for the one who made the promise is trustworthy .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Dictionary Themes and Topics:
ACCOMMODATION |
Offerings |
HEBREWS, EPISTLE TO THE |
High priest |
CHRIST, OFFICES OF |
Types |
Jesus, The Christ |
Law |
Atonement |
LORD'S SUPPER; (EUCHARIST) |
INTERCESSION OF CHRIST |
SACRIFICE, IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, 1 |
Prayer |
MEDIATION; MEDIATOR |
TABERNACLE |
Priest |
Quotations and Allusions |
Assurance |
FOR |
Regeneration |
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NET Notes: Heb 10:3 Grk “in them”; the referent (those sacrifices) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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NET Notes: Heb 10:7 A quotation from Ps 40:6-8 (LXX). The phrase a body you prepared for me (in v. 5) is apparently an interpretive expansion of the HT reading “ear...
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NET Notes: Heb 10:8 Various phrases from the quotation of Ps 40:6 in Heb 10:5-6 are repeated in Heb 10:8.
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NET Notes: Heb 10:10 Grk “by which will.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
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NET Notes: Heb 10:20 Through his flesh. In a bold shift the writer changes from a spatial phrase (Christ opened the way through the curtain into the inner sanctuary) to an...
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