Hebrews 10


Hebrews 10 is the tenth chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The author is anonymous, although the internal reference to "our brother Timothy" causes a traditional attribution to Paul, but this attribution has been disputed since the second century and there is no decisive evidence for the authorship. This chapter contains the exposition about Christ's effective sacrifice and the exhortation to continue in faithfulness and expectancy.

Text

The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 39 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:
sees the final stage of Jeremiah 31 exposition to indicate that "Christ inaugurated the new and interior covenant by an act of conformity to God's will".

Verse 4

This is one of the four things to be 'impossible' according to this epistle.

Verse 5

Verse 10

It is the will of God that the believers be sanctified and Christ's act of obedience made God's will his own, because Christ's death conformed to God's will and Christ's obedience—attested in the Gethsemane story and the fourth gospel.

Summation (10:11–18)

This section weaves together the themes of the previous few chapters.

Verse 14

  • "By one offering": By his one sacrifice Jesus Christ did what the law of Moses, and all its sacrifices, could not do.
  • "Those who are being sanctified" by God the Father and set apart by him in internal election.

    Hold Fast to Faith (10:19–24)

This part contains an exhortation to live as members of the "new covenant" which stresses faith, hope and love, a traditional triad also seen in.

Warning and Encouragement (10:24–39)

Verses 26-31 reference the unforgivable sin according to theologians, such as John Wesley. The encouragement in verse 32-29 balances the threat or warning in verses 24-31.

Verse 37

This verse combines the quote 'a little while' from with the quote 'will not tarry' from Habakkuk 2:3 in its Greek form, rendering it as a prediction of one 'who is coming' that points to the imminence of Christ's second coming.
  • "Tarry": Delay.

    Verse 38

Cited from the LXX version of Habakkuk 2:4 which reads:
Here "he shrinks back" is not applied to the "coming one" but to "those who await God's deliverance."
Paul also cites Habakkuk 2:4 in Galatians 3:11 and Romans 1:17 to contrast "faith" and "works of the law".

Verse 39

  • Cross reference: Luke 17
  • "Perdition": or "destruction".
This verse contrasts the result of two opposite lines of action: εἰς ἀπώλειαν, eis apōleian or εἰς περιποίησιν ψυχῆς, eis peripoiēsin psychēs,.