Hebrews 10:22-25
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
22 let us approach with a sincere heart and in absolute trust, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience[a] and our bodies washed in pure water.(A) 23 Let us hold unwaveringly to our confession that gives us hope, for he who made the promise is trustworthy.(B) 24 We must consider how to rouse one another to love and good works. 25 We should not stay away from our assembly,[b] as is the custom of some, but encourage one another, and this all the more as you see the day drawing near.(C)
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- 10:22 With our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience: as in Hb 9:13 (see note there), the sprinkling motif refers to the Mosaic rite of cleansing from ritual impurity. This could produce only an external purification, whereas sprinkling with the blood of Christ (Hb 9:14) cleanses the conscience. Washed in pure water: baptism is elsewhere referred to as a washing; cf. 1 Cor 6:11; Eph 5:26.
- 10:25 Our assembly: the liturgical assembly of the Christian community, probably for the celebration of the Eucharist. The day: this designation for the parousia also occurs in the Pauline letters, e.g., Rom 2:16; 1 Cor 3:13; 1 Thes 5:2.
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