Hebrews 10:19-39

21st Century King James Version

¹⁹ Having therefore boldness, brethren, to enter into the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,

²⁰ by a new and living Way, which He hath consecrated for us through the veil (that is to say, His flesh),

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

²² let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

²³ Let us hold fast to the profession of our faith without wavering (for He is faithful who promised),

²⁴ and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works,

²⁵ not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as ye see the Day approaching.

²⁶ For if we sin willfully after having received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

²⁷ but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

²⁸ He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

²⁹ Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath accounted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath despised the Spirit of grace?

³⁰ For we know Him that hath said, “Vengeance belongeth unto Me; I will recompense,” saith the Lord. And again, “The Lord shall judge His people.”

³¹ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

³² But call to remembrance the former days in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions,

³³ partly while ye were being made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions, and partly while ye became companions of those who were so used.

³⁴ For ye had compassion on me in my bonds and took joyfully the despoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in Heaven a better and an enduring substance.

³⁵ Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward.

³⁶ For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

³⁷ “For yet a little while, and He that shall come will come, and will not tarry.

³⁸ Now the just shall live by faith; but if any man draw back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him.”

³⁹ But we are not of those who draw back unto perdition, but of those who believe, to the saving of the soul.