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1Vim tias txoj kevcai yog yam tsim txiaj uas yuav los tom qab tus duab xwb, tsis yog tus tseem, mas txoj kevcai uas hais kom niaj xyoo muab tsiaj xyeem li qub tsis tu ncua ua tsis tau rau cov uas los cuag Vajtswv ua neeg zoo kawg nkaus.
2Yog ua tau, ces lawv kuj tseg tsis muab tsiaj xyeem los tsis yog? Yog tus uas pe hawm Vajtswv raug muab ntxuav kom dawb huv ib zaug lawm, lawv kuj yuav tsis xav tias tseem muaj lub txim ntxiv mus.
3Tiamsis qhov uas xyeem tsiaj ntawd qhia kom niaj xyoo nco txog lub txim.
4Rau qhov ntshav txiv nyuj ntshav tshis ris tsis tau lub txim mus kiag li.
5Vim li no thaum Khetos los rau hauv lub ntiajteb lawd, nws hais tias,
“Koj tsis xav yuav tej tsiaj
thiab tej qhov txhia chaw uas muab xyeem,
tiamsis koj npaj lub cev rau kuv.
6Qhov uas tua tsiaj hlawv xyeem
thiab xyeem daws txim koj tsis txaus siab.
7Kuv hais tias, ‘Au Vajtswv, kuv tuaj lawm,
yuav ua raws li koj lub siab nyiam,
raws li uas sau txog kuv
rau hauv thooj ntawv.’ ”⚓
8Nws xub hais tias, “Tej tsiaj uas tua xyeem thiab tej qhov txhia chaw uas muab xyeem thiab tej uas hlawv xyeem thiab tej uas xyeem daws txim, koj tsis xav yuav thiab koj tsis txaus siab rau,” tej no yog tej uas muab xyeem raws li txoj kevcai xwb.
9Thiab nws hais tias, “Kuv tuaj lawm, yuav ua raws li koj lub siab nyiam.” Nws thiaj rhuav txoj qub kev ntawd lawm kom thiaj rhawv tau txoj tshiab.
10Vim Yexus ua raws li Vajtswv lub siab nyiam, peb thiaj raug muab cais ua neeg dawb huv vim qhov uas muab Yexus Khetos lub cev xyeem tib zaug xwb kuj txaus lawm.
11Txhua tus pov thawj kuj niaj hnub sawv ntsug ua nws tes haujlwm, thiab coj tib yam qub tuaj xyeem tsis tu ncua li, tej ntawd yeej ris tsis tau lub txim mus kiag li.
12Tiamsis thaum Khetos xyeem tib zaug xwb daws tau mus ib txhis, nws zaum ntawm Vajtswv sab tes xis,
13tos txog thaum nws cov yeeb ncuab raug muab los ua chaw tiag nws xib taws.⚓
14Qhov uas muab nws xyeem tib zaug xwb, Yexus kuj ua rau cov uas tabtom muab cais ua dawb huv ua tau neeg zoo kawg nkaus mus ib txhis.
15Vaj Ntsuj Plig uas dawb huv kuj ua timkhawv rau peb. Nws xub hais tias,
16“No yog tej lus cog tseg uas kuv yuav
cog rau lawv ua qab ncua sijhawm ntawd.
Tus Tswv hais li no ntag.
Kuv yuav muab kuv txoj kevcai
tso rau hauv lawv thiab sau cia
rau hauv lawv lub siab.”
17Thiab nws hais tias,
“Kuv yuav tsis cim ntsoov lawv lub txim
thiab lawv tej kev txhaum dua li lawm.”⚓
18Thaum muaj kev zam txim lawm kuj tsis txog muaj kev xyeem daws txim dua li lawm.
Tej lus ntuas
19Vim li no, cov kwvtij, vim muaj Yexus cov ntshav peb thiaj muaj cuabkav nkag mus rau hauv lub chaw Dawb Huv Kawg Nkaus,
20yog taug txojkev tshiab thiab txojkev muaj txojsia uas nws qheb rau peb hla daim ntaub mus, vim muaj nws lub cev.
21Thiab vim peb muaj ib tug pov thawj loj kav Vajtswv tsev neeg lawm,
22peb cia li ua lub siab dawb paug nkag mus ze thiab muaj lub siab ntseeg ruaj, muaj lub siab uas raug muab ntshav nchos kom tsis muaj ib qho phem kiag li thiab muaj lub cev uas raus dej ntshiab ntxuav kom dawb huv.
23Peb cia li tuav txojkev vam uas peb lees yuav ntawd ruaj tsis txhob ywj fab ywj fwj, vim tus uas cog lus tseg ntawd tso siab tau.
24Peb cia li ua tib zoo saib yuav ua li cas ib leeg thiaj txhawb tau ib leeg lub zog kom sib hlub thiab ua haujlwm zoo,
25thiab tsis txhob tseg qhov uas tuaj txoos ua ke yam li qee leej txeev tseg, tiamsis ib leeg yuav tsum txhawb ib leeg lub siab, thiab yimhuab yuav tsum ua tej no vim nej paub tias hnub uas teem cia los ze lawm.
26Thaum peb twb paub txojkev tseeb lawm, yog peb tseem txhob txwm ua txhaum kuj tsis muaj ib yam dabtsi uas muab xyeem daws tau peb lub txim dua li lawm,
27tsuas muaj uas yuav tos txojkev teem txim uas ntshai rwg thiab hluavtaws uas cig hlob heev uas yuav kub cov uas tawm tsam Vajtswv.
28Tus uas tso Mauxe txoj kevcai tseg yog muaj ob leeg lossis peb leeg ua timkhawv lawm, tus ntawd yuav raug muab tua tuag tsis khuvleej li.⚓
29Nej sim xav saib tus uas tsuj Vajtswv tus tub thiab ua qias puas tsuas cov ntshav uas cog lus tseg uas muab nws cais ua dawb huv lawm thiab saib tsis taus Vaj Ntsuj Plig uas pub txojkev hlub mas tsim nyog tus ntawd yuav raug txim hnyav heev dua npaum li cas?
30Rau qhov peb paub Vajtswv tus uas hais tias, “Qhov uas ua pauj yog kuv li feem thiab kuv yuav pauj rau.” Thiab hais dua tias, “Tus Tswv yuav txiav txim rau nws haiv neeg.”⚓
31Qhov uas poob rau hauv Vajtswv uas muaj txojsia nyob txhais tes yog qhov uas txaus ntshai kawg.
32Tiamsis nej cia li nco txog yav nram ntej uas nej tau txais txojkev kaj lawm nej tau tiv thev tej kev txom nyem loj kawg,
33qee zaum nej raug thuam thiab raug tsim txom tab meeg sawvdaws, thiab qee zaum nej kuj nrog cov uas raug tsim txom li ntawd koom ua ke.
34Rau qhov nej kuj mob siab cov uas raug kaw, thiab thaum luag lws nej tej cuab txhiaj cuab tam coj mus nej kuj zoo siab hlo, vim nej paub tias nej muaj cuab txhiaj cuab tam uas zoo dua li tej ntawd thiab yuav nyob mus li.
35Vim li no tsis txhob muab nej lub siab tuab uas yuav coj nqe zog ntau heev los rau nej tso tseg.
36Vim nej yuav tsum muaj lub siab thev taus kom nej thiaj ua tau raws li Vajtswv lub siab thiab nej thiaj tau tej uas cog lus cia lawd.
37Tshuav tsis ntev,
“tus uas yuav los yeej yuav los,
nws yuav tsis tos ntev.
38Tiamsis tus uas kuv suav tias ncaj ncees
yuav muaj txojsia nyob
vim nws ntseeg Vajtswv.
Yog nws thim rov qab,
kuv yuav tsis txaus siab rau nws.”⚓
39Tiamsis peb tsis yog cov uas thim rov qab thiab raug kev puam tsuaj. Peb yog cov uas ntseeg thiaj tuav tau peb txojsia.
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Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All
1The 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.
2Otherwise, 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.
3But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins.
4It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said:
“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
but a body you prepared for me;
6with burnt offerings and sin offerings
you were not pleased.
7Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll—
I have come to do your will, my God.’ ”⚓
8First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them”—though they were offered in accordance with the law.
9Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second.
10And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
12But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,
13and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool.
14For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.
15The 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.”⚓
17Then he adds:
“Their sins and lawless acts
I will remember no more.”⚓
18And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary.
A Call to Persevere in Faith
19Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,
20by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body,
21and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
22let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.
23Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.
24And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,
25not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
26If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left,
27but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.
28Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
29How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?
30For we know him who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,”⚓ and again, “The Lord will judge his people.”⚓
31It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering.
33Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated.
34You suffered along with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions.
35So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.
36You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.
37For,
“In just a little while,
he who is coming will come
and will not delay.”⚓
38And,
“But my righteous⚓ one will live by faith.
And I take no pleasure
in the one who shrinks back.”⚓
39But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.