132So ℵCA 33 81 copsa,bo,fay arm. But p46 1739 1881 vg omit they
10: 2 Else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins.
10: 3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance made of sins year by year.
10: 4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
10: 5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, 133Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, But a body didst thou prepare for me;
133Ps 40:6-8
10: 6 In whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hadst no pleasure:
10: 7 Then said I, Lo, I am come (In 134the roll of the book it is written of me) To do thy will, O God,
134Lit. a heading of a scroll it is...
10: 8 Saying above, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein (the which are offered according to the law),
10: 9 then hath he said, Lo, I am come to do thy will. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
10: 10 135By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
135Or, In
10: 11 And every 136priest indeed standeth day by day ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, the which can never take away sins:
136So p46,79vidℵ 1739 33 81 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss., copbo vg. CA P copsa,fay arm read high priest
10: 12 but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for 137sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
137Or, sins, for ever sat down etc.
10: 13 henceforth expecting till his enemies be made the footstool of his feet.
10: 14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
10: 15 And the Holy Spirit also beareth witness to us; for after having said,
10: 16 138This is the covenant that 139I will make with them After those days, saith the Lord: I will put my laws on their heart, And upon their mind also will I write them; then saith,
138Jer 31:33f.
139Gk. I will covenant
10: 17 And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
10: 18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sins.
10: 19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the Holies by the blood of Jesus,
10: 20 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
10: 21 and having a great priest over the house of God;
10: 22 let us draw near with a true heart in 140full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil 141conscience: and having our body washed with pure water,
140Or, fulness of faith,
141Or, conscience, and our body washed with pure water: let us hold fast
10: 23 let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not; for he is faithful that promised:
10: 24 and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works;
10: 25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.
10: 26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins,
10: 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a 142fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries.
142Or, jealousy
10: 28 A man that hath set at nought Moses’ law dieth without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses:
10: 29 of how much sorer punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified 143an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the spirit of grace?
143Gk. a common thing,
10: 30 For we know him that said, 144Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense. And again, 145The Lord shall judge his people.
144Dt 32:35.
145Dt 32:36.
10: 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
10: 32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were enlightened, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings;
10: 33 partly, being made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, becoming partakers with them that were so used.
10: 34 For ye both had compassion 146with them in bonds, and took joyfully the seizing of your possessions, knowing that 147ye have for yourselves a mightier possession and an abiding one.
146So A 1739 33 81 copsa,bo arm vg. ℵ and a majority of lesser Gk. mss. read with my bonds, p46 256 with few others read with them in bonds,
147So p13,46ℵA 1739 33 81 arm vg. 1175 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss. read ye have your own selves for a better possession etc. Compare Lk 9:25; 21:19.
10: 35 Cast not away therefore your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward.
10: 36 For ye have need of 148patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.
148Or, stedfastness,
10: 37 149For yet a very little while, He that cometh shall have come, and shall not tarry.
149Hab 2:3f.
10: 38 But 150my righteous one shall live by faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.
150So p46ℵA 1739 33 copsa vg. p13 I and the majority of lesser Gk. mss., copbo read the righteous one
10: 39 But we are not 151of them that shrink back unto perdition; but of them that have faith unto the 152saving of the soul.
151Gk. of shrinking back ... but of faith
152Or, gaining
