10:26 For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us, 6 10:27 but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury 7 of fire that will consume God’s enemies. 8 10:28 Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death 9 without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 10 10:29 How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for 11 the Son of God, and profanes 12 the blood of the covenant that made him holy, 13 and insults the Spirit of grace?
1 tn Grk “for the Spirit was not yet.” Although only B and a handful of other NT
2 sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.
3 tn Or “have fallen away.”
4 tn Or “while”; Grk “crucifying…and holding.” The Greek participles here (“crucifying…and holding”) can be understood as either causal (“since”) or temporal (“while”).
5 tn Grk “recrucifying the son of God for themselves.”
6 tn Grk “is left,” with “for us” implied by the first half of the verse.
7 tn Grk “zeal,” recalling God’s jealous protection of his holiness and honor (cf. Exod 20:5).
8 tn Grk “the enemies.”
9 tn Grk “dies.”
10 sn An allusion to Deut 17:6.
11 tn Grk “tramples under foot.”
12 tn Grk “regarded as common.”
13 tn Grk “by which he was made holy.”