Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
And By God’s Will We Are Made Holy By The Offering of Christ’s Body
10 ... by which will we have been made-holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once-for-all.
The Priests Offer Sacrifices Daily, But Jesus Offered One Sacrifice For All
11 And every priest stands ministering daily and offering often the same sacrifices which are never able to take-away sins— 12 but this One, having offered one sacrifice for sins[a] for all time, sat-down at the right hand of God, 13 henceforth waiting until His enemies are put as a footstool of His feet.
For By One Offering Jesus Perfected Us For All Time
14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time the ones being made-holy.
The New Covenant Says That God Will Never Remember Our Sins Again
15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after the statement [in Jer 31:33] having said 16 “This is the covenant which I will covenant with them after those days, says the Lord: Giving My laws upon their hearts, I will also write them upon their mind”, 17 then He says “And I will never remember their sins and their lawless-deeds again”.
God’s Permanent Forgiveness Makes Further Offerings For Sin Unnecessary
18 Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer an offering for sin!
Disciples' Literal New Testament: Serving Modern Disciples by More Fully Reflecting the Writing Style of the Ancient Disciples, Copyright © 2011 Michael J. Magill. All Rights Reserved. Published by Reyma Publishing