希伯來書
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第十章
1 律法既然是以後要來的美好事物的影子,不是本體的真象,就不能憑着每年獻同樣的祭品,使那些進前來的人得到完全。
2 如果敬拜的人一次得潔淨,良心就不再覺得有罪,那麼,獻祭的事不是早就停止了嗎?
3 可是那些祭品,卻使人每年都想起罪來,
4 因為公牛和山羊的血不能把罪除去。
5 所以,基督到世上來的時候,就說:“祭品和禮物不是你所要的,你卻為我預備了身體。
6 燔祭和贖罪祭,不是你所喜悅的;
7 那時我說:‘看哪!我來了,經卷上已經記載我的事, 神啊!我來是要遵行你的旨意。’”
8 前面說:“祭品和禮物,燔祭和贖罪祭,不是你所要的,也不是你所喜悅的。”這些都是按照律法獻的;
9 接着又說:“看哪!我來了,是要遵行你的旨意。”可見他廢除那先前的,為要建立那後來的。
10 我們憑着這旨意,借着耶穌基督一次獻上他的身體,就已經成聖。
11 所有的祭司都是天天站着事奉,多次獻上同樣的祭品,那些祭品永遠不能把罪除去。
12 唯有基督獻上了一次永遠有效的贖罪祭,就在 神的右邊坐下來。
13 此後,只是等待 神把他的仇敵放在他的腳下,作他的腳凳。
14 因為他獻上了一次的祭,就使那些成聖的人永遠得到完全。
15 聖靈也向我們作見證,因為後來他說過:
16 “主說:‘在那些日子以後,我要與他們所立的約是這樣:我要把我的律法放在他們的心思裡面,寫在他們的心上。’”
17 又說:“我決不再記着他們的罪惡,和不法的行為。”
18 這一切既然都赦免了,就不必再為罪獻祭了。
NIV:
1 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming--not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
2 If it could, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins.
3 But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins,
4 because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me;
6 with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased.
7 Then I said, 'Here I am--it is written about me in the scroll--I have come to do your will, O God.'"
8 First he said, "Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them" (although the law required them to be made).
9 Then he said, "Here I am, I have come to do your will." He sets aside the first to establish the second.
10 And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
12 But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God.
13 Since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool,
14 because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.
15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says:
16 "This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds."
17 Then he adds: "Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more."
18 And where these have been forgiven, there is no longer any sacrifice for sin.