Christ's Sacrifice Once for All

Hebrews 10

1 For the law, having a a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, b can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once 1 purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. 3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. 4 For c it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.

5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said:
d "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire,
But a body You have prepared for Me.
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin
You had no pleasure.
7 Then I said, 'Behold, I have come -
In the volume of the book it is written of Me -
To do Your will, O God.' " 2

8 Previously saying, "Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them" (which are offered according to the law), 9 then He said, "Behold, I have come to do Your will, 3 O God." He takes away the first that He may establish the second. 10 e By that will we have been 4 sanctified f through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

11 And every priest stands g ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 h But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down i at the right hand of God, 13 from that time waiting j till His enemies are made His footstool. 14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being 5 sanctified.

15 But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before,

16 k "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them," 6

17 then He adds, l "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more." 7

18 Now where there is 8 remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.

  1. Cross References
    Hebrews 8:5
    Who serve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, "See that you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
  2. Cross References
    Hebrews 7:19
    For the law made nothing perfect; on the other hand, there is the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
    Hebrews 9:9
    It was symbolic for the present time in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make him who performed the service perfect in regard to the conscience -
  3. Cross References
    Micah 6:6
    With what shall I come before the LORD, And bow myself before the High God? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, With calves a year old?
    Micah 6:7
    Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, Ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
  4. Cross References
    Psalms 40:6 - 8
    Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; My ears You have opened. Burnt offering and sin offering You did not require.
  5. Cross References
    John 17:19
    And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that the...
    Ephesians 5:26
    That He might sanctify and cleanse her with the...
    Hebrews 2:11
    For both He who sanctifies and those who are be...
    Hebrews 10:14
    For by one offering He has perfected forever th...
    Hebrews 10:29
    Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, w...
    Hebrews 13:12
    Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify th...
  6. Cross References
    Hebrews 9:12
    Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.
  7. Cross References
    Numbers 28:3
    And you shall say to them, 'This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to the LORD: two male lambs in their first year without blemish, day by day, as a regular burnt offering.
  8. Cross References
    Colossians 3:1
    If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.
    Hebrews 1:3
    Who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
  9. Cross References
    Psalms 110:1
    The LORD said to my Lord, "Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.
  10. Cross References
    Psalms 110:1
    The LORD said to my Lord, "Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.
    Hebrews 1:13
    But to which of the angels has He ever said: "Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool"?
  11. Cross References
    Jeremiah 31:33
    But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
    Jeremiah 31:34
    "No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."
    Hebrews 8:10
    For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
  12. Cross References
    Jeremiah 31:34
    "No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."
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