Ibrani 10:1

Concluding Exposition: Old and New Sacrifices Contrasted

10:1 For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship. ¹ 

Ibrani 10:11-12

10:11 And every priest stands day after day ²  serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again – sacrifices that can never take away sins. 10:12 But when this priest ³  had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right hand ⁴  of God,

[10:1]  ¹ tn Grk “those who approach.”

[10:11]  ² tn Or “daily,” “every day.”

[10:12]  ³ tn Grk “this one.” This pronoun refers to Jesus, but “this priest” was used in the translation to make the contrast between the Jewish priests in v. 11 and Jesus as a priest clearer in English.

[10:12]  ⁴ sn An allusion to Ps 110:1.