Hebrews Chapter 10 Bible in Basic English

Hebrews 10:1

For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean.

Hebrews 10:2

For if this had been possible, would there not have been an end of those offerings, because the worshippers would have been made completely clean and would have been no longer conscious of sins?

Hebrews 10:3

But year by year there is a memory of sins in those offerings.

Hebrews 10:4

Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins.

Hebrews 10:5

So that when he comes into the world, he says, You had no desire for offerings, but you made a body ready for me;

Hebrews 10:6

You had no joy in burned offerings or in offerings for sin.

Hebrews 10:7

Then I said, See, I have come to do your pleasure, O God (as it is said of me in the roll of the book).

Hebrews 10:8

After saying, You had no desire for offerings, for burned offerings or offerings for sin (which are made by the law) and you had no pleasure in them,

Hebrews 10:9

Then he said, See, I have come to do your pleasure. He took away the old order, so that he might put the new order in its place.

Hebrews 10:10

By that pleasure we have been made holy, by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for ever.

Hebrews 10:11

And every priest takes his place at the altar day by day, doing what is necessary, and making again and again the same offerings which are never able to take away sins.

Hebrews 10:12

But when Jesus had made one offering for sins for ever, he took his place at the right hand of God;

Hebrews 10:13

And has been waiting there from that time, till all who are against him are made a foot-rest for his feet.

Hebrews 10:14

Because by one offering he has made complete for ever those who are made holy.

Hebrews 10:15

And the Holy Spirit is a witness for us: for after he had said,

Hebrews 10:16

This is the agreement which I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws in their hearts, writing them in their minds; he said,

Hebrews 10:17

And I will keep no more memory of their sins and of their evil-doings.

Hebrews 10:18

Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no more offering for sin.

Hebrews 10:19

So then, my brothers, being able to go into the holy place without fear, because of the blood of Jesus,

Hebrews 10:20

By the new and living way which he made open for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

Hebrews 10:21

And having a great priest over the house of God,

Hebrews 10:22

Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:

Hebrews 10:23

Let us keep the witness of our hope strong and unshaking, for he is true who has given his word:

Hebrews 10:24

And let us be moving one another at all times to love and good works;

Hebrews 10:25

Not giving up our meetings, as is the way of some, but keeping one another strong in faith; and all the more because you see the day coming near.

Hebrews 10:26

For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins,

Hebrews 10:27

But only a great fear of being judged, and of the fire of wrath which will be the destruction of the haters of God.

Hebrews 10:28

A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses:

Hebrews 10:29

But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment?

Hebrews 10:30

For we have had experience of him who says, Punishment is mine, I will give reward. And again, The Lord will be judge of his people.

Hebrews 10:31

We may well go in fear of falling into the hands of the living God.

Hebrews 10:32

But give thought to the days after you had seen the light, when you went through a great war of troubles;

Hebrews 10:33

In part, in being attacked by angry words and cruel acts, before the eyes of everyone, and in part, in being united with those who were attacked in this way.

Hebrews 10:34

For you had pity on those who were in prison, and had joy in the loss of your property, in the knowledge that you still had a better property and one which you would keep for ever.

Hebrews 10:35

So do not give up your hope which will be greatly rewarded.

Hebrews 10:36

For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.

Hebrews 10:37

In a very little time he who is coming will come; he will not be slow.

Hebrews 10:38

But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.

Hebrews 10:39

But we are not of those who go back to destruction; but of those who have faith even to the salvation of the soul.