Hebrews 10:16-34

¹⁶“ ‘This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their hearts and I will write them on their minds,

¹⁷and I will not at all remember their sins and lawless deeds.’ ”

¹⁸Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.

¹⁹Therefore, brothers, having courage to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,

²⁰by a new and living way that He inaugurated for us, through the curtain, that is to say, His flesh,

²¹and having a Great Priest over the house of God,

²²let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts having been sprinkled from an evil conscience and our body having been washed with clean water.

²³Let us hold fast the confession of the Hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

²⁴And let us contemplate one another, for the stirring up of love and good works,

²⁵not forsaking the assembling of ourselves (like some are doing), but exhorting one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

²⁶Because, if we deliberately keep on sinning after having received the real knowledge of the Truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

²⁷just a certain fearful anticipation of judgment and fierce fire that is ready to consume the hostiles.

²⁸Anyone who rejected Moses' law died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

²⁹Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be deemed worthy who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has regarded as unholy the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?

³⁰For we know Him who said, “ ‘Vengeance is up to me,’ says the Lord, ‘I will repay.’ ” And again, “The Lord will judge His people.”

³¹It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God!

³²However, remember those earlier days in which, having been enlightened, you endured a great struggle of sufferings:

³³partly being publicly exposed to both insults and oppression, and partly siding with those who were so treated.

³⁴Indeed, you also shared in the suffering of my chains; you even accepted the plundering of your possessions with joy, knowing that you have for yourselves a better and enduring possession in the heavens.