Hebrews 10:11-25

The Voice

¹¹In the first covenant, every day every officiating priest stands at his post serving, offering over and over those same sacrifices that can never take away sin. ¹²But after He stepped up to offer His single sacrifice for sins for all time, He sat down in the position of honor at the right hand of God. ¹³Since then, He has been waiting for the day when He rests His feet on His enemies’ backs,^[a] as the psalm says. ¹⁴With one perfect offering, Jesus has perfected forever those who are being made holy, ¹⁵as the Holy Spirit keeps testifying to us through the prophet Jeremiah. After he says,

¹⁶“But when those days are over,” says the Eternal One, “I will make
this kind of covenant with the people of Israel:
I will put My laws in their hearts
and write them upon their minds,”^[b]

then He adds,

¹⁷I will erase their sins and wicked acts out of My memory
as though they had never existed.^[c]

¹⁸When there is forgiveness such as this, there is no longer any need to make an offering for sin.

¹⁹So, my friends, Jesus by His blood gives us courage to enter the most holy place. ²⁰He has created for us a new and living way through the curtain, that is, through His flesh. ²¹Since we have a great High Priest who presides over the house of God, ²²let us draw near with true hearts full of faith, with hearts rinsed clean of any evil conscience, and with bodies cleansed with pure water. ²³Let us hold strong to the confession of our hope, never wavering, since the One who promised it to us is faithful. ²⁴Let us consider how to inspire each other to greater love and to righteous deeds, ²⁵not forgetting to gather as a community, as some have forgotten, but encouraging each other, especially as the day of His return approaches.