Hebrews Chapter 10 Verse by Verse

Grace unto you, and peace,
from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ

Hebrews 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, [and] not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

The law is referred to as having a "shadow" (dark version) of good (God) things to come. So it's not the very (true) image of the things, but a false image. For there is no "shadow" of turning in God, nor any darkness in "that God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all". Furthermore law, being faulty and imperfect, can never make comers thereunto perfect. Be ye perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect in Mt 5:48 is also merciful in Lk 6:36. And merciful is void of sacrifice(slaughter), when grace is void of law, which is perfection noted in Heb 6:1.

Hebrews 10:2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

Chp 10 continues affirming what is noted in chp 9: the law, offerings and sacrifices thereof, cannot purge the conscience of sins. So it's like an endless merry go round, not only  in Mosaic times, but in churches today. Law imputes sin, demands sacrifice for sin, the death penalty for jaywalking, but sacrifices can never purge the conscience. Hebrews did it annually. Gentile churches do it weekly. Year after year, week after week, the merry go round goes round.

Hebrews 10:3 But in those [sacrifices there is] a remembrance again [made] of sins every year.

In laws, sacrifices thereof, is remembrance of sins, not eradication of sin via abolition of law. With Hebrews it's yearly, but with Gentiles it's weekly, and for Roman Catholics it's daily.
Hebrews 10:4 For [it is] not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

It seems evident such law abiding, sacrificial bloodshed, can't possibly take away sins. For it is law which actually imputes sin: Romans 5:13, not which takes away sin. And all sacrifices for sin are of the law and by the law, which continually imputes sin and remembrance of sins.

Hebrews 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

The scriptures reveal the only true God of two Gods would not have any sacrifice at all, never desired sacrifice for sin, never found it acceptable, would not accept nor compromise with any sacrifice and offering for sin. It flat out states it in places like Psalms 40:6; Psalms 50:7-9; Psalms 51:16; Isaiah 1:11; Jeremiah 6:20; Hosea 6:6; Amos 5:21,22; Matthew 9:13; Matthew 12:7; and especially Hebrews 10. And reviewing Noah's Ark story we find God did not request seven nor any sacrifice after the flood, rather LORD did, and therein Genesis 6 - 8 the commandments(plural) of God and the LORD are "contrary", as contrary and two and seven.

Hebrews 10:6 In burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

Notably God never ever took any pleasure, none, in any sacrifice or offerings for sin, for such would be as grace taking pleasure in law, which is as absurd as life taking pleasure in death, is as absurd as putting new wine in old wine bottles... the result being they all burst; the POINT being "by the using of ordinances all perish", so "touch not, taste not, handle not" any law law.

Hebrews 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

Here we find the sole purpose of Jesus Christ coming, with grace and truth, is to do the will of God, which is stated as "I will have mercy, and not sacrifice" in Hos 6:6 and given as a go figure in Mt 9:13 to ye do err folk. When we go figure, we find it meaneth I will have grace, and not law; I will have truth, and not lie; I will have love, and not fear. We could also say it meaneth I will have understanding, and not ignorance... a theme of Pauline epistles.  For God will not only have all men saved, but also all men aware what they are saved from. And as we'll see in Heb 11 receiving the promise is only by doing the will of God; For those all who did not do the will of God all "died" and "received not the promise". Selah.

Hebrews 10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and [offering] for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure [therein]; which are offered by the law;

Clarity. If what God will not have, will not accept, is sacrifice of the law and by the law, then it reasons His Grace will not have, not accept, nor make any compromise with any law; not even the second law of Mt 22 and Rom 8. For law imputes sin, which demands sacrifice(slaughter); Law also demands perfection, but law doesn't make perfect nor does sacrifice purge the conscience of sin. So those saying: be law abiding to 'please' God are lying(lawing), many "such like" being more the child of hell than Jews were in Mt 23, for they were under the law.

Hebrews 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

Clarity. It's not sacrifice which purges sin, but doing the will of God, which is to take away the first: law, to establish the second: grace; take away the first: lie, to establish the second: truth; take away the first: sacrifice, to establish the second: mercy. In the same manner peace is only established by taking away war, the sides war of law/grace in the heavens; and to the point of blotting out ordinances (laws), whether written in stone or ink, till such things vanish.

1st - Law (law and lie was given by Moses)... press DELETE to "take away" lie
2nd - Grace (grace and truth came by JC)... press SAVE to "establish" the truth

1st - new and dead way of new apostolic movement... also a dead end: press delete
2nd - new and living way: above forgiving one another, above a servant: press save

Pst - ya don't put new wine in old bottles, which is what a "new" apostolic movement is doing.
Pst - Their end? It will be according to their (grace + law = life + death = dead end) "works"!

Hebrews 10: 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once [for all].

It is by God's will we are sanctified, a seventh day thing, and such is "through" the offering of the body of Jesus => Christ: the end of the law; And once, not annually nor weekly nor daily. We shouldn't get hung up on the cross, nor on Jesus, but go through the cross to risen and seated with Christ: the end of the law, leaving law nailed as the enmity. For "that God" was in "Christ" reconciling the world. In Christ: the end of the law, there is no sin (hence no law). To wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing sin: 2Cor 5:19.

Hebrews 10:11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

The point made is not to accuse nor condemn priests, but to bring awareness sacrifices can never take away sins; for sacrifices are of the law, which not only imputes sin, but is also the strength of sin. Hence sacrifices give place to law which gives place to sin, a merry go round.

Hebrews 10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

The only offering  for sins which would be acceptable is one whereby law got abolished, which is allegorically the death of death, since law a ministration of death. So he took grace + law, made it grace vs law (division), took such to the cross where law nailed and abolished, and His grace void of law goes on through to risen & seated on the right hand of God as what's right with God of such left/right. Yet such is in heavens, for there are no sides in heaven.

Hebrews 10:13  From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

Such speaks of Ps 110:1, but also of Is 66:1 where it notes heaven is God's throne and the earth is his footstool. It also asks what the place of his rest, and looking at Gen 2 we find it's only after the seventh day gets both blessed and sanctified that God rested.

Hebrews 10:14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

Perfected, being past tense, speaks of it as done, once and for all. Yet what seems to require more time is awareness of such by all who have been sanctified by abolition of law. For until it becomes understood, and by all, many will draw back to law, sin imputation, and sacrifices.

Hebrews 10:15 [Whereof] the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,

Albeit the Holy Ghost is a witness, but perhaps a false or questionable witness. Watch the tricky wording here: after he had said before. What's said after the before is also questionable.

Hebrews 10:16 This [is] the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

This is the before part of such before/after. Many get confused and see it as the after part. Everything about the before part is plural: laws, hearts, minds, and also them, for the host of them (prepared for war) have plural heavens and earth.

Hebrews 10:17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

Such is the after part, but also questionable, for "will I" is a question, I will a statement. We should remember such things are an allegory, and also a mystery.

Hebrews 10:18 Now where remission of these [is, there is] no more offering for sin.

Tricky. Where remission of sins and iniquities, no more offering for sin needed. Yet without bloodshed, sacrifice, there is no remission of sin by law. It seems to be a vicious cycle.

Hebrews 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,

No doubt the blood of Jesus speaks better things than the blood of Abell, yet such better is only the better of good better best, like holier of holy holier holiest. Paul is speaking to Hebrews, getting such to have boldness to enter the holiest, which only the high priest entered, only annually, and only with blood, also a rope tied to his leg due to fear of being smitten.

Hebrews 10:20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

Of old/new it's new, and of dead/living it's living, the new and living way into the holiest of holy holier holiest. Such is through the veil, through his flesh

Hebrews 10:21 And [having] an high priest over the house of God;

And such a way, through the veil, to see what's veiled, is by an high priest of the house of God

Hebrews 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

Drawing near to God is then with a true heart in full assurance of faith (the law is not of faith), having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience (no more sin consciousness).

Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of [our] faith without wavering; (for he [is] faithful that promised;)

Let's hold fast to the fact we've been sanctified and forever perfected without wavering

Hebrews 10:24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

Let's provoke, have contention, the inciting sort, provoking one another to love and good works of love. Let the contention be sharp if needed, sharpness only for exhortation: up lifting.

Hebrews 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some [is]; but exhorting [one another]: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

The assembling of ourselves together is not all gathering in some building nor in Jerusalem on certain holy days, but more like assembling a six billion piece puzzle whereby all pieces fit in, but all do not fit together. So we find those other pieces we do fit, as individuals and groups, then keep trying to fit with other groups till the puzzle fully assembled is a picture of grace... all the while provoking one another to love (not fear) and to good works ( not evil works). 

Hebrews 10:26 For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

If when no law, no sin imputed, the only way we have to sin is to un-abolish law,  make a law and break it. I can't imagine any doing such once they have received and understood the knowledge of the truth: grace is sufficient (no law req'd), especially since it was a once for all.

Hebrews 10:27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

If we sin (only law imputes sin: Rom 5:13, only law is the strength of sin: 1Cor 15:56) willfully after knowing better, then we might find ourselves being the sacrifice for such law worketh wrath.

Hebrews 10:28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

Looking at Mosaic law we find it got rather merciless to all when provoked by some (Heb 3), to the point all saved out of Egypt got destroyed (Jude 5). So the point made here is not to be law abiding, but rather to perceive law merciless and deadly, a ministration of death (2Cor 3).

Hebrews 10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

Doing despite to the Spirit of grace is simply adding law to grace is sufficient. Doing such is as trodding under foot the Son of God, by whom came grace, and by whom we are sanctified.

Hebrews 10:30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance [belongeth] unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

The Lord associated with vengeance is law. Merciful God is void of vengeance. So law judges law folk, and seems to judge all such guilty as hell, for law is a ministration of condemnation.

Hebrews 10:31 [It is] a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

The use of (plural) "hands" suggests the left/right sides in (plural) heavens, where law seems to be the living God; For the use of the term "fall" suggests being drawn away from heaven (higher than the heavens), where there is no law, to heavens and the sides war thereof.

Hebrews 10:32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

There is always a trial, or test, to see if your illumination is all light and no darkness at all. If not, it won't likely endure, and may require some further housecleaning. For if fear is kicked out, but source of fear remains, then it gives place for fear to return with seven more wicked.

Hebrews 10:33 Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.

Partly and partly is two parts, which speaks of imperfect part not yet done away when the perfect part is come: 1Cor 13. For when grace and truth is come, the law and lie part is to be done away; And when mercy is come, sacrifice is to be done away; And when peace is come, war is to be done away; just as becoming man kind involves putting away childish things.

Hebrews 10:34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.

I can't think of any comment to make on this verse.

Hebrews 10:35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

Confidence speaks of freedom in speaking, boldness, unreservedness, frankness, without any concealment, openly, plainly, free and fearless assurance, cheerful courage... of His grace.

Hebrews 10:36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

Do the will of God PRECEDES receive the promise. Receive the promise (eternal life) notably comes after ye have done the will of God, which is  "I will have mercy, and not sacrifice", is to allegory say I will grace, and not law when probating the will of God our Saviour will have all men saved(graced) and aware what delivered from: Law (God our Destroyer, on high).

Hebrews 10:37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.

He that shall come speaks of Gen 15:4, and of he that shall be heir; and heir speaks of being no more children nor servants, but a son, the son of promise. And Gal 4 reminds us to cast out the law (bondwoman = this Agar = Mt Sinai = law) and the result of the law: sin & death (her son); and so that we are not children of the bondwoman (law), but (man kind) of the free, who are not children at all, but man kind of child/man, and the better blessed: no sin imputation, which speaks of no law, for only law imputes sin (to all) and then sin brings forth death (to all).

Grace doesn't tarry: where sin (law imputes sin) abounded, grace did "much more" abound. Rather is it law that seems to hinder, delay, linger, tarry so long, so long after it's expiry date.

Hebrews 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if [any man] draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

The just shall live by faith, and such is "now" of then/now. Notably "the law is not of faith": Gal 3:11; so drawing back to law is not unto faith, but unto unbelief.  No pleasure, when it comes to God, speaks of fools (who sit in Moses' seat: law), and of them, and of sacrifice, which is "of the law". God never took pleasure in it, for his will is "I will have mercy, and not sacrifice". 

Hebrews 10:39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

Two sorts of "them": draw back to perdition <-them | them-> believe to saving of the soul, which still speaks of plural heavens and a sides war, albeit the better sort of them believes to the saving of the soul. Above such, in heaven (higher than the heavens), is us all, no them at all.

Adam was a living soul, so we're talking the saving of Adam (also called them in Gen 5:2); but not by drawing back to law and Adamic soulishness, rather going on unto perfection of no law, not even a mention of it at the end. Not to mention last Adam, the Lord from heaven, such pure religion doesn't need salvation, rather is salvation to first Adam. Drawing back to law speaks of going Back-ward: bwd to ye-ward instead of fwd to you-ward; bwd to them-ward instead of fwd to us-ward; bwd to law worketh wrath instead of fwd to God-ward.

Comparing the Conclusion of Hebrews with the Conclusion of the Holy Bible:
Conclusion of To The Hebrews (a mini bible itself): "Grace with you all. Amen."
Conclusion of Holy Bible: "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen."