Hebrews 10:14

Good News Translation

With one sacrifice, then, he has made perfect forever those who are purified from sin.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are sanctified.

King James Version (1611)
For by one offering hee hath perfected for euer them that are sanctified.

King James Version
For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

English Standard Version
For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

New American Standard Bible
For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

New Century Version
With one sacrifice he made perfect forever those who are being made holy.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

Legacy Standard Bible
For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

Berean Standard Bible
because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.

Contemporary English Version
By his one sacrifice he has forever set free from sin the people he brings to God.

Complete Jewish Bible
For by a single offering he has brought to the goal for all time those who are being set apart for God and made holy.

Darby Translation
For by one offering he has perfected in perpetuity the sanctified.

Easy-to-Read Version
With one sacrifice Christ made his people perfect forever. They are the ones who are being made holy.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For with one offering hath he consecrated for euer them that are sanctified.

George Lamsa Translation
For by one offering he has perfected for ever those who are sanctified.

Lexham English Bible
For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy.

Literal Translation
For by one offering He has perfected in perpetuity the ones being sanctified.

Amplified Bible
For by the one offering He has perfected forever and completely cleansed those who are being sanctified [bringing each believer to spiritual completion and maturity].

American Standard Version
For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

Bible in Basic English
Because by one offering he has made complete for ever those who are made holy.

Hebrew Names Version
For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

International Standard Version
For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.Hebrews 10:1;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
For by one offering he hath perfected those who are sanctified through him for ever.

Murdock Translation
For by one offering, he hath perfected for ever, them who are sanctified by him.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For with one offeryng hath he made perfite for euer them that are sanctified.

English Revised Version
For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

World English Bible
For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are sanctified.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

Weymouth's New Testament
For by a single offering He has for ever completed the blessing for those whom He is setting free from sin.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For bi oon offring he made perfit for euere halewid men.

Update Bible Version
For by one offering he has perfected forever those that are sanctified.

Webster's Bible Translation
For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

New English Translation
For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy.

New King James Version
For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

New Living Translation
For by that one offering he forever made perfect those who are being made holy.

New Life Bible
And by one gift He has made perfect forever all those who are being set apart for God-like living.

New Revised Standard
For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, by one offering, hath he perfected for evermore, them who are being made holy.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For by one oblation he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

Revised Standard Version
For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For with one offerynge hath he made parfecte for ever them yt are sanctified.

Young's Literal Translation
for by one offering he hath perfected to the end those sanctified;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For with one offerynge hath he made perfecte for euer, the that are sanctified.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for by one single oblation he has purified for ever those that are sanctified.

Simplified Cowboy Version
His one sacrifice made perfect all those who are being made holy by riding for his brand every day.

Contextual Overview

⁷ Then I said, ‘Here I am, to do your will, O God, just as it is written of me in the book of the Law.'" ⁸ First he said, "You neither want nor are you pleased with sacrifices and offerings or with animals burned on the altar and the sacrifices to take away sins." He said this even though all these sacrifices are offered according to the Law. ⁹ Then he said, "Here I am, O God, to do your will." So God does away with all the old sacrifices and puts the sacrifice of Christ in their place. ¹⁰ Because Jesus Christ did what God wanted him to do, we are all purified from sin by the offering that he made of his own body once and for all. ¹¹ Every Jewish priest performs his services every day and offers the same sacrifices many times; but these sacrifices can never take away sins. ¹² Christ, however, offered one sacrifice for sins, an offering that is effective forever, and then he sat down at the right side of God. ¹³ There he now waits until God puts his enemies as a footstool under his feet. ¹⁴ With one sacrifice, then, he has made perfect forever those who are purified from sin. ¹⁵ And the Holy Spirit also gives us his witness. First he says, ¹⁶ "This is the covenant that I will make with them in the days to come, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts and write them on their minds."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he: Hebrews 10:1, Hebrews 7:19, Hebrews 7:25, Hebrews 9:10, Hebrews 9:14

them: Hebrews 2:11, Hebrews 6:13, Hebrews 6:14, Hebrews 13:12, Acts 20:32, Acts 26:13, Romans 15:16, 1 Corinthians 1:2, Ephesians 5:26, Jude 1:1

Reciprocal: Exodus 12:7 - General Leviticus 4:31 - a sweet Leviticus 8:28 - Moses Leviticus 15:14 - General Leviticus 16:34 - once a year Leviticus 23:28 - General Isaiah 53:5 - But he was Daniel 9:24 - and to Acts 26:18 - sanctified Romans 8:3 - For what Romans 10:4 - Christ Colossians 1:28 - perfect Hebrews 10:10 - the offering Hebrews 10:18 - General Hebrews 12:2 - finisher

Cross-References

Deuteronomy 2:23
The land along the Mediterranean coast had been settled by people from the island of Crete. They had destroyed the Avvim, the original inhabitants, and had taken over all their land as far south as the city of Gaza.)

1 Chronicles 1:12
Pathrus, Casluh, and of Crete (from whom the Philistines were descended).

Isaiah 11:11
When that day comes, the Lord will once again use his power and bring back home those of his people who are left in Assyria and Egypt, in the lands of Pathros, Ethiopia, Elam, Babylonia, and Hamath, and in the coastlands and on the islands of the sea.

Jeremiah 44:1
The Lord spoke to me concerning all the Israelites living in Egypt, in the cities of Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Memphis, and in the southern part of the country.

Jeremiah 47:4
The time has come to destroy Philistia, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon all the help that remains. I, the Lord , will destroy the Philistines, all who came from the shores of Crete.

Amos 9:7
The Lord says, "People of Israel, I think as much of the people of Ethiopia as I do of you. I brought the Philistines from Crete and the Syrians from Kir, just as I brought you from Egypt.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For by one offering,.... The same as before; himself, body and soul; this is a reason why he is set down, and will continue so for ever, and why he expects his enemies to be made his footstool; because by one sacrifice for sin, which he has once offered,

he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified; that is, who are sanctified by God the Father, Judges 1:1 or, who are set apart by him in eternal election, from the rest of the world, for his own use, service, and glory, to a state of grace and holiness here, and happiness hereafter; for this is not to be understood either of their being sanctified in Christ, though the Syriac version reads, "that are sanctified" in him, or by his Spirit, though both are true of the same persons; these Christ, by his sacrifice, has perfected, and has perfectly fulfilled the law for them; he has perfectly expiated their sins; he has obtained the full pardon of all their sins, and complete redemption; he has perfectly justified them from all things, and that for ever; which shows the continued virtue of Christ's sacrifice, in all generations, to all the elect of God, and the fulness and duration of their salvation; and so Christ by his one sacrifice did what the law, and all its sacrifices, could not do, Hebrews 10:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For by one offering - By offering himself once on the cross. The Jewish priest offered his sacrifices often, and still they did not avail to put away sin; the Saviour made one sacrifice, and it was sufficient for the sins of the world.

He hath perfected forever - He hath laid the foundation of the eternal perfection. The offering is of such a character that it secures their final freedom from sin, and will make them forever holy. It cannot mean that those for whom he died are made at once perfectly holy, for that is not true; but the idea is, that the offering was complete, and did not need to be repeated; and that it was of such a nature as entirely to remove the penalty due to sin, and to lay the foundation for their final and eternal holiness. The offerings made under the Jewish Law were so defective that there was a necessity for repeating them every day; the offering made by the Saviour was so perfect that it needed not to be repeated, and that it secured the complete and final salvation of those who availed themselves of it.

Them that are sanctified - Those who are made holy by that offering. It does not mean that they are as yet “wholly” sanctified, but that they have been brought under the influence of that gospel which sanctifies and saves; see Hebrews 2:11; Hebrews 9:14. The doctrine taught in this verse is, that all those who are in any measure sanctified will be perfected forever. It is not a temporary work which has been begun in their souls, but one which is designed to be carried forward to perfection. In the atonement made by the Redeemer there is the foundation laid for their eternal perfection, and it was with reference to that, that it was offered. Respecting this work and the consequences of it, we may remark, that there is:

(1)Perfection in its nature, it being of such a character that it needs not to be repeated;

(2)There is perfection in regard to the pardon of sin - all past sins being forgiven to those who embrace it, and being forever forgiven; and

(3)There is to be absolute perfection for them forever.

They will be made perfect at some future period, and when that shall take place it will be to continue forever and ever.

(The perfection, in this place, is not to be understood of the perfection of grace or of glory. It is perfection, in regard to the matter in hand, in regard to what was the chief design of sacrifices, namely, expiation and consequent pardon and acceptance of God. And this indeed is the Τελειωσις Teleiōsis of the Epistle to the Hebrews generally, Hebrews 7:11; Hebrews 9:9; Hebrews 10:1. Perfect moral purity and consummate happiness will doubtless follow as consequences of the sacrifice of Christ, but the completeness of his expiation, and its power to bring pardon and peace to the guilty and trembling sinner, to justify him unto eternal life, is here, at all events, principally intended. The parties thus perfected or completely justified, are τους ἁγιαζομενους tous hagiazomenous, the “sanctified.” Ἁγιαζω Hagiazō, however, besides the general sense of “sanctify” has in this Epistle, like τελειοω teleioō, its sacrificial sense of cleansing from guilt. “Whether ceremonially, as under the Levitical dispensation; Hebrews 9:13; comp, Leviticus 16:19; or really and truly, by the offering of the body of Christ; Hebrews 10:10, Hebrews 10:14, Hebrews 10:29; compare Hebrews 10:2, and Hebrews 2:11; Hebrews 9:14.” - Parkhurst’s Greek Lexicon. The meaning, then, may be, that they who are purged or cleansed by this sacrifice, in other words, those to whom its virtue is applied, are perfectly justified.

Wherever this divine remedy is used, it will effectually save. By one offering Christ hath forever justified such as are purged or cleansed by it. This could not be said of those sanctified or purged by the legal sacrifices. Mr. Scott gives the sacrificial sense of the word, but combines with it the sense of sanctifying morally, in the following excellent paraphrase. “By his one oblation he hath provided effectually for the perfect justification unto eternal life, of all those who should ever receive his atonement, by faith springing from regeneration, and evidenced ‘by the sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience,’ and who were thus set apart and consecrated to the service of God.”)

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 14. For by one offering — His death upon the cross.

He hath perfected for ever. — He has procured remission of sins and holiness; fur it is well observed here, and in several parts of this epistle, that τελειοω, to make perfect, is the same as αφεσιν αμαρτιων ποιεω, to procure remission of sins.

Them that are sanctified. — τους αγιαζομενους. Them that have received the sprinkling of the blood of this offering. These, therefore, receiving redemption through that blood, have no need of any other offering; as this was a complete atonement, purification, and title to eternal glory.