Hebreos 10
Palabra de Dios para Todos
Cristo nos hace perfectos
10 La ley era sólo una imagen borrosa de las bendiciones que llegarían en el futuro. La ley no es la verdadera bendición porque exige a la gente que ofrezca los mismos sacrificios todos los años. Los que se acercan a ofrecer culto a Dios siguen ofreciendo esos sacrificios, pero la ley jamás puede hacerlos perfectos. 2 Si la ley lo pudiera hacer, entonces ya estarían limpios, no se sentirían culpables de sus pecados y esos sacrificios ya hubieran dejado de ofrecerse. 3 Cada año los sacrificios sirven para recordarles sus pecados, 4 porque es imposible quitar los pecados con la sangre de toros y chivos.
5 Por eso, cuando Cristo vino al mundo dijo:
«Tú no quieres sacrificios ni ofrendas,
sino que has preparado un cuerpo para mí.
6 A ti no te gustan los sacrificios de animales muertos y quemados,
ni los sacrificios que se ofrecen por los pecados.
7 (A)Entonces dije: “Aquí estoy, Dios.
En el libro de la ley está escrito acerca de mí:
Vine a hacer lo que tú quieres que haga”».[a]
8 Cristo comienza diciendo: «No te agradan los sacrificios ni las ofrendas. Tampoco te gustan los sacrificios de animales muertos y quemados, ni los sacrificios que se ofrecen por los pecados», aunque todos estos sacrificios los ordena la ley. 9 Luego añade: «Aquí estoy, Dios. En el libro de la ley está escrito acerca de mí: Vine a hacer lo que tú quieres que haga». Dios reemplaza el primer sistema de sacrificios por el sacrificio de Cristo. 10 Por eso el sacrificio del cuerpo de Cristo nos hace santos. Él cumplió con lo que quería Dios cuando se entregó por nosotros una sola vez y para siempre.
11 Todos los días los sacerdotes celebran sus servicios religiosos. Una y otra vez ofrecen los mismos sacrificios que nunca podrán quitar los pecados. 12 Pero Cristo ofreció un solo sacrificio por los pecados, que es suficiente para todos los tiempos. Luego, se sentó a la derecha de Dios.[b] 13 Ahora Cristo está esperando que Dios ponga a sus enemigos bajo su poder. 14 Con una sola ofrenda, Cristo ha hecho perfectos a los que él purifica.
15 El Espíritu Santo también nos testifica de ello. Primero dice:
16 (B)«Este es el pacto que haré
con mi pueblo en el futuro, dice el Señor.
Pondré mis leyes en su corazón
y las escribiré en su mente».[c]
17 (C)Luego dice:
«Nunca más recordaré
sus pecados ni sus maldades».[d]
18 Una vez que todo ha sido perdonado, ya no hay necesidad de otro sacrificio.
Llamado a la fidelidad
19 Entonces, hermanos, podemos entrar con toda libertad al Lugar Santísimo gracias a la sangre que Jesús derramó. 20 Jesús abrió un camino nuevo para nosotros a través de la cortina. Él mismo es ese camino nuevo y vivo. Es decir, lo abrió ofreciendo su propio cuerpo como sacrificio. 21 El gran sacerdote que tenemos reina sobre la casa de Dios. 22 Nos ha limpiado y liberado de toda culpa, y ahora nuestro cuerpo está lavado con agua pura. Entonces acerquémonos a Dios con un corazón sincero, seguros de la fe que tenemos. 23 Mantengámonos firmes en nuestra esperanza porque Dios cumplirá lo que prometió. No dejemos nunca de hablarles a los demás de nuestra fe.
24 Seamos solidarios. Ayudemos a los demás a demostrar su amor y a hacer el bien. 25 Algunos están faltando a las reuniones, y eso no está bien. Reunámonos para animarnos unos a otros y con mayor razón ahora que vemos que se acerca el día.
26 Si decidimos seguir pecando después de conocer la verdad, entonces no queda otro sacrificio que quite los pecados. 27 Sólo nos queda esperar el juicio terrible, un fuego ardiente que destruirá a los enemigos de Dios. 28 Si alguien desobedece la ley de Moisés, es ejecutado sin compasión cuando hay dos o tres testigos que declaran contra él. 29 ¿Qué creen que le pasará al que desprecia al Hijo de Dios? Es seguro que recibirá mayor castigo por considerar la sangre de Cristo una porquería. Esa sangre que estableció el nuevo pacto lo había purificado de sus pecados. Por eso recibirá un castigo peor por insultar al Espíritu que nos muestra el generoso amor de Dios. 30 (D)(E)Sabemos que Dios dijo: «Los castigaré, les daré su merecido»[e] y «El Señor juzgará a su pueblo».[f] 31 ¡Es terrible caer en las manos del Dios viviente!
32 Recuerden aquellos días cuando acababan de conocer la verdad. Enfrentaron muchos sufrimientos, pero siguieron firmes. 33 En unas ocasiones sufrieron insultos y persecución, y en otras ayudaron a los que estaban sufriendo lo mismo. 34 Se condolieron de los encarcelados y soportaron con alegría cuando a ustedes les quitaron sus propiedades. Siguieron felices porque sabían que poseían algo mucho mejor, algo que dura para siempre. 35 Así que no pierdan la valentía que tenían antes, pues tendrán una gran recompensa. 36 Tengan paciencia y hagan la voluntad de Dios para que reciban lo prometido.
37 «Dentro de poco,
el que va a venir, vendrá; no tarda.
38 (F)El aprobado por Dios, vivirá por la fe;
pero no me agradará si por temor se vuelve atrás».[g]
39 Pero nosotros no somos de los cobardes que se vuelven atrás y se pierden, sino de los que se salvan por su fe.
Hebrews 10
Contemporary English Version
10 The Law of Moses is like a shadow of the good things to come. This shadow isn't the good things themselves, because it cannot free people from sin by the sacrifices offered year after year. 2 If there were worshipers who already have their sins washed away and their consciences made clear, there would not be any need to go on offering sacrifices. 3-4 But the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sins. It only reminds people of their sins from one year to the next.
5 (A) When Christ came into the world, he said to God,
“Sacrifices and offerings
are not what you want,
but you have given me
my body.
6 No, you are not pleased
with animal sacrifices
and offerings for sin.”
7 Then Christ said,
“And so, my God,
I have come to do
what you want,
as the Scriptures say.”
8 The Law teaches that offerings and sacrifices must be made because of sin. But why did Christ mention these things and say that God did not want them? 9 Well, it was to do away with offerings and sacrifices and to replace them. This is what he meant by saying to God, “I have come to do what you want.” 10 So we are made holy because Christ obeyed God and offered himself once for all.
11 (B) The priests do their work each day, and they keep on offering sacrifices that can never take away sins. 12 (C) But Christ offered himself as a sacrifice that is good forever. Now he is sitting at God's right side,[a] 13 and he will stay there until his enemies are put under his power. 14 By his one sacrifice he has forever set free from sin the people he brings to God.
15 The Holy Spirit also speaks of this by telling us that the Lord said,
16 (D) “When the time comes,
I will make an agreement
with them.
I will write my laws
on their minds and hearts.
17 (E) Then I will forget
about their sins
and no longer remember
their evil deeds.”
18 When sins are forgiven, there is no more need to offer sacrifices.
Encouragement and Warning
19 My friends, the blood of Jesus gives us courage to enter the most holy place 20 by a new way that leads to life! And this way takes us through the curtain that is Christ himself.
21 We have a great high priest who is in charge of God's house. 22 (F) So let's come near God with pure hearts and a confidence that comes from having faith. Let's keep our hearts pure, our consciences free from evil, and our bodies washed with clean water. 23 We must hold tightly to the hope we say is ours. After all, we can trust the one who made the agreement with us. 24 We should keep on encouraging each other to be thoughtful and to do helpful things. 25 Some people have given up the habit of meeting for worship, but we must not do that. We should keep on encouraging each other, especially since you know that the day of the Lord's coming is getting closer.
26 No sacrifices can be made for people who decide to sin after they find out about the truth. 27 (G) They are God's enemies, and all they can look forward to is a terrible judgment and a furious fire. 28 (H) If two or more witnesses accused someone of breaking the Law of Moses, that person could be put to death. 29 (I) But it is much worse to dishonor God's Son and to disgrace the blood of the promise that made us holy. And it is just as bad to insult the Holy Spirit, who shows us mercy. 30 (J) We know that God has said he will punish and take revenge. We also know that the Scriptures say the Lord will judge his people. 31 It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God!
32 Don't forget all the hard times you went through when you first received the light. 33 Sometimes you were abused and mistreated in public, and at other times you shared in the sufferings of others. 34 You were kind to people in jail. And you gladly let your possessions be taken away, because you knew you had something better, something that would last forever.
35 Keep on being brave! It will bring you great rewards. 36 Learn to be patient, so you will please God and be given what he has promised. 37 (K) As the Scriptures say,
“God is coming soon!
It won't be very long.
38 The people God accepts
will live because
of their faith.[b]
But he isn't pleased
with anyone
who turns back.”
39 We are not like those people who turn back and get destroyed. We will keep on having faith until we are saved.
Hebrews 10
Authorized (King James) Version
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. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. 3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: 6 in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. 7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. 8 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; 9 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.
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