Hebrews 10 Young's Literal Translation

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1 For the law having a shadow of the coming good things — not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near,

1 For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

2 since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified?

2 Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

3 but in those [sacrifices] is a remembrance of sins every year,

3 But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins.

4 for it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

5 ◆ Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, 'Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not will, and a body Thou didst prepare for me,

5 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me.

6 ◆ in burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offerings, Thou didst not delight,

6 You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.

7 ◆ then I said, Lo, I come, (in a volume of the book it hath been written concerning me,) to do, O God, Thy will;'

7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’”

8 saying above — 'Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offering Thou didst not will, nor delight in,' — which according to the law are offered —

8 Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in them” (those which are offered according to the law),

9 then he said, 'Lo, I come to do, O God, Thy will;' he doth take away the first that the second he may establish;

9 then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,

10 in the which will we are having been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once,

10 by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

11 and every priest, indeed, hath stood daily serving, and the same sacrifices many times offering, that are never able to take away sins.

11 Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,

12 And He, for sin one sacrifice having offered — to the end, did sit down on the right hand of God, —

12 but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God,

13 as to the rest, expecting till He may place his enemies [as] his footstool,

13 from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.

14 for by one offering he hath perfected to the end those sanctified;

14 For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

15 and testify to us also doth the Holy Spirit, for after that He hath said before,

15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,

16 'This [is] the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws on their hearts, and upon their minds I will write them,'

16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days,” says the Lord, “I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;” then he says,

17 and 'their sins and their lawlessness I will remember no more;'

17 “I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more.”

18 and where forgiveness of these [is], there is no more offering for sin.

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

19 Having, therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holy places, in the blood of Jesus,

19 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,

20 which way he did initiate for us — new and living, through the vail, that is, his flesh —

20 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh,

21 and a high priest over the house of God,

21 and having a great priest over God’s house,

22 may we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed with pure water;

22 let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our body washed with pure water,

23 may we hold fast the unwavering profession of the hope, (for faithful [is] He who did promise),

23 let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

24 and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,

24 Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain [is], but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.

25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

26 For we — wilfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth — no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice,

26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

27 but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery zeal, about to devour the opposers;

27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

28 any one who did set at nought a law of Moses, apart from mercies, by two or three witnesses, doth die,

28 A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.

29 of how much sorer punishment shall he be counted worthy who the Son of God did trample on, and the blood of the covenant did count a common thing, in which he was sanctified, and to the Spirit of the grace did despite?

29 How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

30 for we have known Him who is saying, 'Vengeance [is] Mine, I will recompense, saith the Lord;' and again, 'The Lord shall judge His people;' —

30 For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me. I will repay,” says the Lord. Again, “The Lord will judge his people.”

31 fearful [is] the falling into the hands of a living God.

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

32 And call to your remembrance the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye did endure much conflict of sufferings,

32 But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings:

33 partly both with reproaches and tribulations being made spectacles, and partly having become partners of those so living,

33 partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions, and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.

34 for also with my bonds ye sympathised, and the robbery of your goods with joy ye did receive, knowing that ye have in yourselves a better substance in the heavens, and an enduring one.

34 For you both had compassion on me in my chains and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

35 Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward,

35 Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

36 for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise,

36 For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

37 for yet a very very little, He who is coming will come, and will not tarry;

37 “In a very little while, he who comes will come and will not wait.

38 and 'the righteous by faith shall live,' and 'if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,'

38 But the righteous one will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

39 and we are not of those drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul.

39 But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

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Psalm 40:6 and Hebrews 10:5: “ears” or “a body”?
In the Hebrew text of Psalm 40 God has “dug” or “opened” the psalmist’s ears. In the Greek Septuagint (Psalm 39:7) God has “prepared a body” for him, and the Epistle to the Hebrews quotes that Greek wording of Christ coming into the world. The Orthodox Church reads the Greek. Scholars still debate how the Greek reading arose.

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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

Commentary 10:8 John Chrysostom, Homilies on Hebrews (Homily XVIII)
In what has gone before he had shown that the sacrifices were unavailing for perfect purification, and were a type, and greatly defective. Since then there was this objection to his argument, If they are types, how is it that, after the truth is come, they have not ceased, nor given place, but are still performed?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 14 (1889)
Quotes verse 10:32 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily XV)
… incur danger, or are deprived of their goods, but of these also, thus saying, "Call to remembrance the former days, in which after ye were illuminated ye endured a great fight of afflictions; partly whilst ye were made a gazing stock by reproaches, and afflictions." On this account then Christ hath appointed the reward also to be great.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
Quotes verse 10:22 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture III)
… one incorporeal for the incorporeal part, and the other bodily for the body: the water cleanses the body, and the Spirit seals the soul; that we may draw near unto God, having our heart sprinkled by the Spirit, and our body washed with pure water.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Quotes verse 10:29 Basil of Caesarea, On the Holy Spirit (Chapters XXVIII–XXIX)
You hope to "reign with" Christ; but you "do despite unto the Spirit of grace" by assigning Him the rank of a slave and a subordinate.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)
Quotes verse 10:37 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily LXXIV)
Hear him saying, "Yet a little while, and He that cometh will come, and will not tarry. The Lord is at hand, be careful for nothing;" and again, "The fashion of this world passeth away." For neither doth he command only, but also soothes, as a physician should.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)

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