1 Timothy 4:1 But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith.            Notably, the Spirit of God (i.e., Scripture) says that in “later times” some who will “fall away” from the faith. The Greek for “fall away” (Gr. aphistēmi) is literally “from standing.” Now neither the Apostle Paul nor any other writer of Scripture ever promotes the false notion that a C...

Hebrews 10:30-31 For we know [God] who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge His people.” 31 It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.            The Holy God of the Bible is certainly the God of love, but He is also the God of wrath. Since His wrath is upon all who sin, and since all are sinners (Rom. 3:23), all are under His just wrath....

Hebrews 10:28-29 Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?           In Deuteronomy 17:2-7 God gave Moses the sti...

Hebrews 10:26-27 For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire which will consume the adversaries.            The writer’s appeal to his Christian audience in vv. 22-25 concerned three applications vital for Christians in light of who Jesus Christ is as o...

Hebrews 10:26 For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins…            In Micah 2:4, the Hebrew term for one who falls or turns away from their faith is “apostate” (Heb. shobeb). And when one turns away from their faith, they commit the sin of “apostasy” (Jer. 8:5; Hos. 14:4). Now for one to become an apostate, one first...

Hebrews 6:4-6; 10:26 For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame… 1...

Hebrews 10:26 “For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins…”For the fourth time the author warns of apostasy in 10:26 (cf. 2:1-4; 3:6b-4:13; 5:11-6:8; 10:26-31), the deliberate rejection of Christ. Unbelievers have all rejected Christ, but not all are apostates. Apostates are those who, with a full understanding of Jesu...

Hebrews 10:19-25 Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bod...

Hebrews 10:19-22 Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bod...

2 Corinthians 3:1-3 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you? 2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; 3 being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.       In P...

Hebrews 10:15-18 And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying, 16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws upon their heart, and on their mind I will write them,” He then says, 17 “And their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” 18 Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offeri...

Hebrews 10:11-14 Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; 12 but [Jesus], having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God, 13 waiting from that time onward until His enemies be made a footstool for His feet. 14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctifi...

Hebrews 10:5-10 Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says, “Sacrifice and offering You have not desired, but a body You have prepared for Me; 6 in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have taken no pleasure. 7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of Me) to do Your will, O God.’ ” 8 After saying above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burn...

Hebrews 10:1-4 For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near. 2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins? 3 But in those sacri...

Hebrews 9:27-28 And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment, 28 so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.            In Hebrews 9:26, Jesus is said to have been “manifested” (Gr. phaneroō) at the end of the ages—a past tense time when He w...