HEBREËRS 10

1 WANT die wet, wat t’n skaduwee het tvan die toekomstige weldade, nie die beeld self van die dinge nie, kan nooit tdeur dieselfde offers wat jaar na jaar gedurig gebring word, die wat toetree, tot volmaaktheid lei nie.

2 Anders sou hulle opgehou het om geoffer te word, omdat die wat die diens verrig, nadat hulle een maal gereinig is, geen bewussyn meer van sondes sou gehad het nie.

3 Maar tin dié offers is daar tjaar na jaar ’n Lev. 16:21herinnering aan die sondes;

4 want tdie bloed van stiere en bokke kan onmoontlik die sonde wegneem.

5 Daarom sê Hy, tas Hy in die wêreld inkom: tSlagoffer en spysoffer wou U nie hê nie, maar U het vir My t’n liggaam berei.

6 Brandoffers en sondoffers het U nie behaag nie.

7 Toe het Ek gesê: Kyk, Ek kom — in die boekrol is dit van My geskrywe — om u wil te doen, o God.

8 Nadat Hy hierbo gespreek het: Slagoffer en spysoffer en brandoffers en sondoffers wou U nie hê en het U nie behaag nie — wat volgens die wet geoffer word —

9 het Hy daarna gesê: Kyk, Ek kom om u wil te doen, o God. Hy neem die eerste weg om die tweede te stel.

10 Deur hierdie wil tis ons geheilig deur die offer van tdie liggaam van Jesus Christus, tnet een maal.

11 En elke priester staan wel tdag vir dag om die diens waar te neem en dikwels dieselfde slagoffers te bring wat tog nooit die sondes kan wegneem nie;

12 maar Hy het, tnadat Hy een slagoffer vir die sondes gebring het, tvir altyd gaan sit aan die regterhand van God

13 en wag nou verder ttotdat sy vyande gemaak is ’n voetbank van sy voete.

14 Want deur een offer het tHy vir altyd volmaak die twat geheilig word.

15 En ook tdie Heilige Gees gee aan ons getuienis;

16 want nadat Hy tevore gesê het: tDit is die verbond wat Ek met hulle sal sluit ná dié dae, spreek die Here verder: Ek sal my wette gee in hulle hart, en in hulle verstand sal Ek dit inskrywe,

17 en aan hulle sondes en hulle ongeregtighede sal Ek nooit meer dink nie.

18 Waar daar nou vergifnis van hierdie dinge is, is daar geen offer meer vir die sonde nie.

Vermaning om in die geloof te volhard.

19  tTERWYL ons dan, broeders, vrymoedigheid het om in tdie heiligdom in te gaan deur die bloed van Jesus

20 op die nuwe en lewende weg wat Hy vir ons ingewy het deur tdie voorhangsel heen, dit is sy vlees,

21 en ons t’n groot Priester oor tdie huis van God het,

22 laat ons toetree met ’n waaragtige hart in tvolle geloofsversekerdheid, tdie harte deur besprenkeling gereinig van ’n slegte gewete en die liggaam tgewas met rein water.

23 Laat ons tdie belydenis van die hoop onwankelbaar vashou, want tHy wat dit beloof het, is getrou;

24 en laat ons op mekaar ag gee om tot liefde en goeie werke aan te spoor;

25 en laat tons ons onderlinge byeenkoms nie versuim tsoos sommige die gewoonte het nie, maar laat ons mekaar vermaan, en dit des te meer namate julle tdie dag sien nader kom.

26 Want tas ons opsetlik sondig, nadat ons die kennis van die waarheid ontvang het, tbly daar geen offer vir die sondes meer oor nie,

27 maar ’n verskriklike verwagting van oordeel en ’n vuurgloed wat die teëstanders sal verteer.

28  tAs iemand die wet van Moses verwerp het, tsterf hy sonder ontferming op die getuienis van twee of drie;

29  thoeveel swaarder straf, dink julle, sal hy verdien wat tdie Seun van God tvertrap het en tdie bloed van tdie testament waardeur hy tgeheilig is, onrein geag en tdie Gees van genade gesmaad het?

30 Want ons ken Hom wat gesê het: tMy kom die wraak toe, Ek sal vergelde, spreek die Here; en weer: tDie Here sal sy volk oordeel.

31 Vreeslik is dit om te val in die hande van die lewende God.

32 Maar tonthou die vorige dae waarin julle, toe julle verlig geword het, ’n groot lydensworsteling deurstaan het,

33 gedeeltelik omdat julle deur smaad en verdrukkinge ’n skouspel geword het, gedeeltelik omdat julle deelgenote geword het van die wat in so ’n toestand verkeer het.

34 Want julle het ook saam met my gevoel in my boeie, en tjulle het die berowing van julle goed met blydskap aanvaar, omdat julle geweet het dat julle in julself ’n beter en tblywende besitting in die hemele het.

35 Werp dan julle vrymoedigheid, wat ’n groot beloning het, nie weg nie.

36 Want tjulle het lydsaamheid nodig, om, nadat julle die wil van God gedoen het, tdie belofte te verkry.

37 Want tnog ’n klein tydjie, en tHy wat kom, sal kom en nie versuim nie.

38 Maar tdie regverdige sal uit die geloof lewe; en as hy hom onttrek, het my siel geen welbehae in hom nie.
39 Maar by ons is daar geen tonttrekking tot verderf nie, maar geloof tot behoud van die lewe.

Hebrews 10

1 For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.2 Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?3 But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins.4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

5 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says,

“Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire,
but you prepared a body for me;
6 You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.
7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me)
to do your will, O God.’”t
8 Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in them” (those which are offered according to the law),9 then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,10 by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.11 Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,12 but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;13 from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.14 For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,

16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them:
‘After those days,’ says the Lord,
‘I will put my laws on their heart,
I will also write them on their mind;’”t
then he says,

17 “I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more.”t
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.19 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,20 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;21 and having a great priest over God’s house,22 let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

23 let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.
24 Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.28 A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?30 For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me,” says the Lord, “I will repay.”t Again, “The Lord will judge his people.”t31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.32 But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;33 partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.34 For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.35 Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

36 For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

37 “In a very little while,
he who comes will come, and will not wait.
38 But the righteous will live by faith.
If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”t

39 But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.