Hebrews 10:26 Meaning and Explanation
“For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →For those who deliberately persist in sin after knowing the truth, no further sacrifice remains.
What Does Hebrews 10:26 Mean?
After the warm invitations comes a solemn warning. The writer speaks of sinning wilfully, a settled, deliberate turning from God after one has received the knowledge of the truth. This is not the stumble of the weak but the chosen course of the defiant.
For such a deliberate rejection, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, because the only sufficient sacrifice, Christ's, is the very thing being spurned. To knowingly cast away the one remedy is to leave oneself without recourse. The warning is severe because the gift is so great. It calls the reader to hold fast in earnest, for there is no other Savior behind the one we already have.
Hebrews 10:26 in the Original Language
hekousios (ἑκουσίως), 'wilfully' -- willingly, of one's own deliberate choice, not by accident or weakness.
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What does Hebrews 10:26 mean?
For those who deliberately persist in sin after knowing the truth, no further sacrifice remains.