What Does Hebrews 10:14 Mean?
For by one offering he has made complete without break those being set apart.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.THE KEY
One offering brings to completion the very people who are still being set apart.
THE MEANING
The one offering brings you to completion, while you are now being set apart. The verse holds an accomplished reality and an ongoing process in the same people; continuing change does not cancel the completeness already declared.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that ongoing change proves you are still unfinished: the verse calls the same people complete and still being set apart.
THE ROOT
τετελείωκεν
teteleiōken
GROWS FROM
τελ-
tel-
End or goal; bringing something to completion.
“made complete” in this verse is teteleiōken. The word carries the sense of reaching the intended goal, not simply being polished to flawlessness. Paired with “for ever,” it presents that completion as enduring.
ALSO GROWS
telos: End, goal, or outcome.
τέλος
It shows the destination contained in the idea of being brought to completion.
teleios: Complete or mature.
τέλειος
It shares the same family of words for reaching a goal and becoming complete.
ἁγιαζομένους
hagiazomenous
GROWS FROM
ἁγ- (hag-), from ἅγιος (hagios)
Set apart; made distinct for a particular purpose.
The Greek form is a present participle: it describes people who are being set apart. The sentence holds this ongoing process together with their completed wholeness.
ALSO GROWS
hagios: Set apart.
ἅγιος
It names the identity of the people described here as being set apart.
hagiasmos: Setting apart.
ἁγιασμός
It names the process that is still unfolding in the verse.
προσφορά
prosphora
GROWS FROM
φερ- (pher-), with προσ- (pros-) prefix
To carry or bring; with the prefix, to carry or bring toward.
The word belongs to a family built around bringing something toward its recipient. That sense makes the offering an act of bringing near, the single act on which the verse’s enduring completion rests.
ALSO GROWS
prospherō: Bring toward, present, or offer.
προσφέρω
This related verb names the act behind the offering: bringing something toward.
pherō: Carry, bear, or bring.
φέρω
Its shared stem preserves the sense of bearing or bringing within the word-family.
THE PATTERN
A completed act of God can hold an ongoing work of setting-apart without making completion provisional.
By this will we have been set apart through the offering of the body of Jesus, the Anointed One, once for all.The LORD finishes what concerns me; your faithful love, O LORD, endures for the ages; do not let the works of your hands drop.Being confident of this very thing, that the one who began a good work in you will finish it until the day of Jesus the Anointed One.THE THREAD
By this will we have been set apart through the offering of the body of Jesus, the Anointed One, once for all.This verse uses the same Greek word-family for setting apart, ἁγιάζω (hagiazō, set apart), and offering, προσφορά (prosphora, offering). It makes the relation explicit: one offering stands at the source of the setting-apart, while Hebrews 10:14 names those same people both complete and still being set apart.
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