American Standard Version of 1901
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Else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins.
{Or, not altogether with the fornicators &c.}not at all meaning with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world:
{Some ancient authorities read We therefore.}For we who have believed do enter into that rest; even as he hath said, {Psalms 95:11} {Or, So}As I sware in my wrath, {Greek: If they shall enter.}They shall not enter into my rest:although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, even the blood of Christ:
And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, every one whose name hath not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that hath been slain.
and the enemy that sowed them is the devil: and the harvest is {Or, the consummation of the age}the end of the world; and the reapers are angels.
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness; {The word God, in place of He who, rests on no sufficient ancient evidence. Some ancient authorities read which.}He who was manifested in the flesh,Justified in the spirit,Seen of angels,Preached among the {Or, Gentiles}nations,Believed on in the world,Received up in glory.
who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of the times for your sake,
hath at the end of these days spoken unto us in {Greek: a Son.}his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the {Greek: ages. Compare 1 Timothy 1:17}worlds;
For there is a disannulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness