劝勉和警告
19 所以,弟兄们!我们凭着耶稣的血,可以坦然无惧地进入至圣所。
20 这进入的路,是他给我们开辟的,是一条通过幔子、又新又活的路,这幔子就是他的身体。
21 我们既然有一位伟大的祭司治理 神的家,
22 我们良心的邪恶既然被洒净,身体也用清水洗净了,那么,我们就应该怀着真诚的心和完备的信,进到 神面前;
23 又应该坚持我们所宣认的盼望,毫不动摇,因为那应许我们的是信实的。
24 我们又应该彼此关心,激发爱心,勉励行善。
25 我们不可放弃聚会,好像有些人的习惯一样;却要互相劝勉。你们既然知道那日子临近,就更应该这样。
26 如果我们领受了真理的知识以后,还是故意犯罪,就再没有留下赎罪的祭品了;
27 只好恐惧地等待着审判,和那快要吞灭众仇敌的烈火。
28 如果有人干犯了摩西的律法,凭着两三个证人,他尚且得不到怜悯而死;
29 何况是践踏 神的儿子,把那使他成圣的立约的血当作俗物,又侮辱施恩的圣灵的人,你们想想,他不是应该受更严厉的刑罚吗?
30 因为我们知道谁说过:“伸冤在我,我必报应。”又说:“主必定审判他自己的子民。”
31 落在永活的 神手里,真是可怕的。
要忍耐行完 神的旨意
32 你们要回想从前的日子,那时,你们蒙了光照,忍受了许多痛苦的煎熬;
33 有时在众人面前被辱骂,遭患难;有时却成了遭遇同样情形的人的同伴。
34 你们同情那些遭监禁的人;你们的家业被抢夺的时候,又以喜乐的心接受,因为知道自己有更美长存的家业。
35 所以,你们不可丢弃坦然无惧的心,这样的心是带有大赏赐的。
36 你们还需要忍耐,好使你们行完了 神的旨意,可以领受所应许的。
37 因为:“还有一点点的时候,那要来的就来,并不迟延。
38 我的义人必因信得生,如果他后退,我的心就不喜悦他。”
39 但我们不是那些后退以致灭亡的人,而是有信心以致保全生命的人。
19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,
20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body,
21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.
24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.
25 Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another--and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
26 If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left,
27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.
28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
29 How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him who said, "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge his people."
31 It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you stood your ground in a great contest in the face of suffering.
33 Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated.
34 You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions.
35 So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.
36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.
37 For in just a very little while, "He who is coming will come and will not delay.
38 But my righteous one will live by faith. And if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him."
39 But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved.