Hebrews 10:10
New King James Version
10 (A)By that will we have been [a]sanctified (B)through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
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- Hebrews 10:10 set apart
Hebrews 10:10
Holman Christian Standard Bible
10 By this will of God, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all.(A)
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Hebrews 10:10
New Living Translation
10 For God’s will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time.
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Hebrews 10:10
The Message
The Sacrifice of Jesus
10 1-10 The old plan was only a hint of the good things in the new plan. Since that old “law plan” wasn’t complete in itself, it couldn’t complete those who followed it. No matter how many sacrifices were offered year after year, they never added up to a complete solution. If they had, the worshipers would have gone blissfully on their way, no longer dragged down by their sins. But instead of removing awareness of sin, when those animal sacrifices were repeated over and over they actually heightened awareness and guilt. The plain fact is that bull and goat blood can’t get rid of sin. That is what is meant by this prophecy, put in the mouth of Christ:
You don’t want sacrifices and offerings year after year;
you’ve prepared a body for me for a sacrifice.
It’s not fragrance and smoke from the altar
that whet your appetite.
So I said, “I’m here to do it your way, O God,
the way it’s described in your Book.”
When he said, “You don’t want sacrifices and offerings,” he was referring to practices according to the old plan. When he added, “I’m here to do it your way,” he set aside the first in order to enact the new plan—God’s way—by which we are made fit for God by the once-for-all sacrifice of Jesus.
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Hebrews 10:14
New King James Version
14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being [a]sanctified.
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- Hebrews 10:14 set apart
Hebrews 10:14
Holman Christian Standard Bible
14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are sanctified.
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Hebrews 10:14
New Living Translation
14 For by that one offering he forever made perfect those who are being made holy.
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Hebrews 10:14-18
The Message
11-18 Every priest goes to work at the altar each day, offers the same old sacrifices year in, year out, and never makes a dent in the sin problem. As a priest, Christ made a single sacrifice for sins, and that was it! Then he sat down right beside God and waited for his enemies to cave in. It was a perfect sacrifice by a perfect person to perfect some very imperfect people. By that single offering, he did everything that needed to be done for everyone who takes part in the purifying process. The Holy Spirit confirms this:
This new plan I’m making with Israel
isn’t going to be written on paper,
isn’t going to be chiseled in stone;
This time “I’m writing out the plan in them,
carving it on the lining of their hearts.”
He concludes,
I’ll forever wipe the slate clean of their sins.
Once sins are taken care of for good, there’s no longer any need to offer sacrifices for them.
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Hebrews 12:23
New King James Version
23 to the [a]general assembly and church of (A)the firstborn (B)who are registered in heaven, to God (C)the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men (D)made perfect,
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- Hebrews 12:23 festal gathering
Hebrews 12:23
Holman Christian Standard Bible
23 to the assembly of the firstborn whose names have been written[a] in heaven, to God who is the Judge of all, to the spirits of righteous people made perfect,(A)
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- Hebrews 12:23 Or registered
Hebrews 12:23
New Living Translation
23 You have come to the assembly of God’s firstborn children, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God himself, who is the judge over all things. You have come to the spirits of the righteous ones in heaven who have now been made perfect.
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Hebrews 12:23-24
The Message
22-24 No, that’s not your experience at all. You’ve come to Mount Zion, the city where the living God resides. The invisible Jerusalem is populated by throngs of festive angels and Christian citizens. It is the city where God is Judge, with judgments that make us just. You’ve come to Jesus, who presents us with a new covenant, a fresh charter from God. He is the Mediator of this covenant. The murder of Jesus, unlike Abel’s—a homicide that cried out for vengeance—became a proclamation of grace.
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