Chapter 10 – Chapter 11

Chapter 10

CHAPTER 10

1 For the law, having the shadow of good things to come, not the very living image of things, can never by the sacrifices which are offered continually every year, sanctify those who come;

2 Would they not have otherwise ceased to be offered? because the worshippers, once cleansed, would have no more conscience of sins

3 But in these there is a remembrance of sins every year;

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

5 Therefore when coming into the world, he saith, “Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared for me;

6 Burnt­offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast not approved;

7 Then said I, Lo, I am coming (in the volume of the book it is written of me) that I may do, O God, thy will.”

8 After having said above, “Sacrifice and offering, burnt­offering and sacrifices for sin thou wouldest not, nor hast thou approved,” which are offered according to the law;

9 Then he said, “Lo, I am coming that I may do, O God, thy will,” —he takes away the first, that he may establish the second;

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

11 And every priest stands, indeed, daily to minister and to offer often the same sacrifices which can never take away sins;

12 But he, having offered one sacrifice for sins, sits down perpetually at the right hand of God,

13 Henceforth waiting until his enemies be made his footstool:

14 For by one offering he hath consecrated for ever those who are sanctified.

15. Now the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after having previously said,

16 “This is the covenant which I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws in their hearts, and in their minds will I write them,” [he adds,]

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

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

19 Having then, brethren, confidence 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, his flesh,

21 And having a great priest over the house of God,

22 Let us draw near with a sincere heart, in a full assurance of faith, sprinkled in our hearts from an evil conscience, and washed in our body with pure water;

23 Let us hold the confession of our hope with out wavering, for faithful is he who has promised;

24 And let us consider one another for the purpose of emulation in love and in good works;

25 Nor let us neglect the assembling of ourselves together, as the custom with some is; but let us exhort one another, and so much the more as ye see the day approaching.

26 For to those who willingly sin, after having received the knowledge of the truth, there is no more left a sacrifice for sins,

27 But a dreadful expectation of judgment, and a fiery indignation which shall devour the adversaries.

28 He who cast aside the law of Moses died without mercy under two or three witnesses: of how much heavier punishment,

29 Think ye, shall he be deemed worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and counted unholy the blood of the testament by which he has been sanctified, and has treated scornfully the Spirit of grace?

30 For we know who says, “Mine is vengeance, I will repay,” saith the Lord; and again, “The Lord will judge his people.”

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

32 But remember the former days, in which, after being illuminated, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings; partly when ye were exposed to public shame by reproaches and distresses,

33 And partly when ye became the companions of those who were thus treated:

34 For ye sympathized with me in my bonds, and took the plunder of your goods with joy, knowing that ye have a better and an enduring substance in heaven.

35 Cast not then away your confidence which has a great recompense of reward.

36 Ye have truly need of patience, so that having done the will of God, ye may obtain the promise:

37 For it will yet be a little while, when he who is coming will come, and will not delay.

38 But the just, by faith shall he live; and if he draws back, my soul shall have no delight in him.

39 But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the salvation of the soul.

Chapter 11

CHAPTER 11

1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the demonstration of things not seen:

2 For by it the elders obtained a testimony.

3 By faith we understand that the worlds were set in order by the Word of God, so that of things not visible they became visible.

4 By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained a testimony that he was righteous, God bearing a testimony to his gifts; and by it, he being dead, yet speaketh.

5 By faith Enoch was translated, so as not to see death; nor was he found, because God had translated him; for before his translation he had received a testimony that he pleased God.

6 But without faith it is impossible to please him; for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of those who seek him.

7 By faith Noah, having been warned by God of things which did not as yet appear, being moved with fear, prepared an ark for the preservation of his house; by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

8 By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed, so that he went out into the place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going.

9 By faith he sojourned in the promised land, as though it was a foreign country, dwelling in tents together with Isaac and Jacob, co­heirs to the same promise;

10 For he expected a city having foundations, whose master­builder and maker is God.

11 By faith also Sarah herself received power to conceive seed; and beyond the time of age she brought forth, because she counted him faithful who had promised.

12 Therefore there have been begotten even of one, and him indeed dead, those in multitude as the stars of heaven, and as the numberless sand which is on the sea­shore.

13 All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having afar off seen, and believed, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth:

14 Verily they who say such things shew that they seek a country.

15 And if indeed they had remembered that from which they had come out, they had time to return:

16 But they now desire a better, even that which is heavenly: hence God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.

17 By faith Abraham offered up Isaac, when he was tried; and he offered up the only­begotten after having received the promises,

18 Respecting whom it had been said, “In Isaac shall thy seed be called;”

19 Accounting that God was able to raise him even from the dead; whence also he received him in a type.

20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. By faith Jacob, when dying,

21 Blessed both the sons of Joseph, and worshipped on the head of his couch.

22 By faith Joseph, when dying, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel, and gave an order respecting his bones.

23 By faith Moses, when born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and feared not the decree of the king.

24 By faith Moses, when grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,

25 Choosing rather to suffer evils with the people of God than to have the temporary pleasures of sin;

26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked on the recompense of reward.

27 By faith he left Egypt, having not feared the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

28 By faith he appointed the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, that he who destroyed the first­born should not touch them.

29 By faith they passed through the Red Sea as through a dry land; which when the Egyptians attempted, they were drowned.

30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell, having been surrounded seven days.

31 By faith Rahab the harlot perished not with the unbelieving, after having received the explorers in peace.

32 And what more shall I say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak, of Samson and Jephthae; of David, and of Samuel, and the Prophets;

33 Who by faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, closed the mouths of lions,

34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, became strong in weakness, were made valiant in battle, put to flight the armies of aliens:

35 Women, by a resurrection, received their dead; and some were tortured, not having received deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection;

36 And others experienced mockings and scourgings, and further, bonds and imprisonment:

37 They were stoned, sawn asunder, tempted, slain with the sword: they wandered in sheep­skins and goat­skins, being destitute, oppressed, ill­treated,

38 (of whom the world was not worthy;) wandering in deserts, and on mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

39 And all these, having received a testimony by faith, did not obtain the promise:

40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they might not without us be made perfect.