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10 Lögmálið geymir aðeins skugga hins góða, sem er í vændum, ekki skýra mynd þess. Ár eftir ár eru bornar fram sömu fórnir, sem geta aldrei gjört þá fullkomna til frambúðar, sem ganga fram fyrir Guð.

Annars hefðu þeir hætt að bera þær fram. Dýrkendurnir hefðu þá ekki framar verið sér meðvitandi um synd, ef þeir hefðu í eitt skipti fyrir öll orðið hreinir.

En með þessum fórnum er minnt á syndirnar ár hvert.

Því að blóð nauta og hafra getur með engu móti numið burt syndir.

Því er það, að Kristur segir, þegar hann kemur í heiminn: Fórn og gjafir hefur þú eigi viljað, en líkama hefur þú búið mér.

Brennifórnir og syndafórnir geðjuðust þér ekki.

Þá sagði ég: "Sjá, ég er kominn _ í bókinni er það ritað um mig _ ég er kominn til að gjöra þinn vilja, Guð minn!"

Fyrst segir hann: "Fórnir og gjafir og brennifórnir og syndafórnir hefur þú eigi viljað, og eigi geðjaðist þér að þeim." En það eru einmitt þær, sem fram eru bornar samkvæmt lögmálinu.

Síðan segir hann: "Sjá, ég er kominn til að gjöra vilja þinn." Hann tekur burt hið fyrra til þess að staðfesta hið síðara.

10 Og samkvæmt þessum vilja erum vér helgaðir með því, að líkama Jesú Krists var fórnað í eitt skipti fyrir öll.

11 Og svo er því farið um hvern prest, að hann er dag hvern bundinn við helgiþjónustu sína og ber fram margsinnis hinar sömu fórnir, þær sem þó geta aldrei afmáð syndir.

12 En Jesús bar fram eina fórn fyrir syndirnar og settist um aldur við hægri hönd Guðs

13 og bíður þess síðan, að óvinir hans verði gjörðir að fótskör hans.

14 Því að með einni fórn hefur hann um aldur fullkomnað þá, er helgaðir verða.

15 Og einnig heilagur andi vitnar fyrir oss. Fyrst segir hann:

16 Þetta er sáttmálinn, er ég mun gjöra við þá eftir þá daga, segir Drottinn. Lög mín vil ég leggja í hjörtu þeirra, og í hugskot þeirra vil ég rita þau.

17 Síðan segir hann: Ég mun aldrei framar minnast synda þeirra eða lögmálsbrota.

18 En þar sem syndirnar eru fyrirgefnar, þar þarf ekki framar fórn fyrir synd.

19 Vér megum nú, bræður, fyrir Jesú blóð með djörfung ganga inn í hið heilaga,

20 þangað sem hann vígði oss veginn, nýjan veg og lifandi inn í gegnum fortjaldið, það er að segja líkama sinn.

21 Vér höfum mikinn prest yfir húsi Guðs.

22 Látum oss því ganga fram fyrir Guð með einlægum hjörtum, í öruggu trúartrausti, með hjörtum, sem hreinsuð hafa verið og eru laus við meðvitund um synd, og með líkömum, sem laugaðir hafa verið í hreinu vatni.

23 Höldum fast við játningu vonar vorrar án þess að hvika, því að trúr er sá, sem fyrirheitið hefur gefið.

24 Gefum gætur hver að öðrum og hvetjum hver annan til kærleika og góðra verka.

25 Vanrækið ekki safnaðarsamkomur yðar eins og sumra er siður, heldur uppörvið hver annan, og það því fremur sem þér sjáið að dagurinn færist nær.

26 Því að ef vér syndgum af ásettu ráði, eftir að vér höfum öðlast þekkingu sannleikans, þá er úr því enga fórn að fá fyrir syndirnar,

27 heldur er það óttaleg bið eftir dómi og grimmilegur eldur, sem eyða mun andstæðingum Guðs.

28 Sá, er að engu hefur lögmál Móse, verður vægðarlaust líflátinn, ef tveir eða þrír vottar bera.

29 Hve miklu þyngri hegning ætlið þér þá ekki að sá muni vera talinn verðskulda, er fótum treður son Guðs og vanhelgar blóð sáttmálans, er hann var helgaður í, og smánar anda náðarinnar?

30 Vér þekkjum þann, er sagt hefur: "Mín er hefndin, ég mun endurgjalda." Og á öðrum stað: "Drottinn mun dæma lýð sinn."

31 Óttalegt er að falla í hendur lifanda Guðs.

32 Minnist fyrri daga, er þér höfðuð tekið á móti ljósinu, hvernig þér urðuð að þola mikla raun þjáninga.

33 Það var ýmist, að þér sjálfir, smánaðir og aðþrengdir, voruð hafðir að augnagamni, eða þá hitt, að þér tókuð þátt í kjörum þeirra, er áttu slíku að sæta.

34 Þér þjáðust með bandingjum, og tókuð því með gleði, er þér voruð rændir eignum yðar, því að þér vissuð, að þér áttuð sjálfir betri eign og varanlega.

35 Varpið því eigi frá yður djörfung yðar. Hún mun hljóta mikla umbun.

36 Þolgæðis hafið þér þörf, til þess að þér gjörið Guðs vilja og öðlist fyrirheitið.

37 Því að: Innan harla skamms tíma mun sá koma, sem koma á, og ekki dvelst honum.

38 Minn réttláti mun lifa fyrir trúna, en skjóti hann sér undan, þá hefur sála mín ekki velþóknun á honum.

39 En vér skjótum oss ekki undan og glötumst, heldur trúum vér og frelsumst.

Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All

10 The law is only a shadow(A) of the good things(B) that are coming—not the realities themselves.(C) For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect(D) those who draw near to worship.(E) Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins.(F) But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins.(G) It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats(H) to take away sins.(I)

Therefore, when Christ came into the world,(J) he said:

“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
    but a body you prepared for me;(K)
with burnt offerings and sin offerings
    you were not pleased.
Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll(L)
    I have come to do your will, my God.’”[a](M)

First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them”(N)—though they were offered in accordance with the law. Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.”(O) He sets aside the first to establish the second. 10 And by that will, we have been made holy(P) through the sacrifice of the body(Q) of Jesus Christ once for all.(R)

11 Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices,(S) which can never take away sins.(T) 12 But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins,(U) he sat down at the right hand of God,(V) 13 and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool.(W) 14 For by one sacrifice he has made perfect(X) forever those who are being made holy.(Y)

15 The Holy Spirit also testifies(Z) to us about this. First he says:

16 “This is the covenant I will make with them
    after that time, says the Lord.
I will put my laws in their hearts,
    and I will write them on their minds.”[b](AA)

17 Then he adds:

“Their sins and lawless acts
    I will remember no more.”[c](AB)

18 And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary.

A Call to Persevere in Faith

19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence(AC) to enter the Most Holy Place(AD) by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way(AE) opened for us through the curtain,(AF) that is, his body, 21 and since we have a great priest(AG) over the house of God,(AH) 22 let us draw near to God(AI) with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings,(AJ) having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience(AK) and having our bodies washed with pure water.(AL) 23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope(AM) we profess,(AN) for he who promised is faithful.(AO) 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,(AP) 25 not giving up meeting together,(AQ) as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another(AR)—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.(AS)

26 If we deliberately keep on sinning(AT) after we have received the knowledge of the truth,(AU) no sacrifice for sins is left, 27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire(AV) that will consume the enemies of God. 28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.(AW) 29 How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God(AX) underfoot,(AY) who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant(AZ) that sanctified them,(BA) and who has insulted the Spirit(BB) of grace?(BC) 30 For we know him who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,”[d](BD) and again, “The Lord will judge his people.”[e](BE) 31 It is a dreadful thing(BF) to fall into the hands(BG) of the living God.(BH)

32 Remember those earlier days after you had received the light,(BI) when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering.(BJ) 33 Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution;(BK) at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated.(BL) 34 You suffered along with those in prison(BM) and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions.(BN) 35 So do not throw away your confidence;(BO) it will be richly rewarded.

36 You need to persevere(BP) so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.(BQ) 37 For,

“In just a little while,
    he who is coming(BR) will come
    and will not delay.”[f](BS)

38 And,

“But my righteous[g] one will live by faith.(BT)
    And I take no pleasure
    in the one who shrinks back.”[h](BU)

39 But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.

Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 10:7 Psalm 40:6-8 (see Septuagint)
  2. Hebrews 10:16 Jer. 31:33
  3. Hebrews 10:17 Jer. 31:34
  4. Hebrews 10:30 Deut. 32:35
  5. Hebrews 10:30 Deut. 32:36; Psalm 135:14
  6. Hebrews 10:37 Isaiah 26:20; Hab. 2:3
  7. Hebrews 10:38 Some early manuscripts But the righteous
  8. Hebrews 10:38 Hab. 2:4 (see Septuagint)

10 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.

For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;

Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,

16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

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

18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,

20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

21 And having an high priest over the house of God;

22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

33 Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.

34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.

35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.

38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.