Quotes About Grace

so also Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await Him.

If it could, would not the offerings have ceased? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt the guilt of their sins.

Instead, those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins,

because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

In burnt offerings and sin offerings You took no delight.

In the passage above He says, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not desire, nor did You delight in them” (although they are offered according to the law).

Then He adds, “Here I am, I have come to do Your will.” He takes away the first to establish the second.

And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

But when this Priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God.

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

“This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.”

Then He adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”

And where these have been forgiven, an offering for sin is no longer needed.

Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,

by the new and living way opened for us through the curtain of His body,

and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,

How much more severely do you think one deserves to be punished who has trampled on the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and insulted the Spirit of grace?

By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies in peace, did not perish with those who were disobedient.

God had planned something better for us, so that together with us they would be made perfect.

See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.

to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to them.