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The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,
Hebrews 10:15 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
  • BSB The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First He says:
  • NKJV But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before,
  • NASB And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying,
  • NLT And the Holy Spirit also testifies that this is so. For he says,

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Quick answer

The Holy Spirit also bears witness to this truth through Scripture. The author appeals to the Spirit's testimony in the prophets.

Overview

The writer introduces another quotation from Jeremiah 31, attributing it directly to the Holy Spirit. This affirms the divine inspiration of Scripture and grounds the argument in God's own word. The Spirit confirms that the new covenant brings full and final forgiveness.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 17

  • Heb 3:7Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,
  • 2 Pet 1:21For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
  • Rev 3:6He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.
  • Rev 2:11He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death.
  • John 15:26“When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.
  • Acts 28:25When they didn’t agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had spoken one word, “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah, the prophet, to our fathers,
  • Rev 2:7He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.
  • Rev 2:29He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.
  • Rev 3:22He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.”
  • Rev 2:17He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.
  • Rev 3:13He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.
  • 2 Sam 23:2“Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.
  • 1 Pet 1:11–12searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.
  • Neh 9:30Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet would they not give ear. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
  • Heb 9:8The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing;
  • Heb 2:3–4how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation — which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;
  • Rev 19:10I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, “Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.”

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Christ at the center

Hebrews is sustained worship of Christ: better than angels, Moses, and the priests; the great High Priest after Melchizedek who by one sacrifice perfects forever those he saves.

How Hebrews 10:15 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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