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# Connecting Statement:
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The writer now gives his fourth warning.
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# we deliberately go on sinning
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"we know we are sinning but we do it again and again"
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# after we have received the knowledge of the truth
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Knowledge of the truth is spoken of as if it were an object that could be given by one person to another. Alternate translation: "after we have learned the truth" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# the truth
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The truth about God. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])
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# a sacrifice for sins no longer remains
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No one is able to give a new sacrifice because Christ's sacrifice is the only one that works. Alternate translation: "no one can offer a sacrifice for which God will forgive our sins" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])
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# a sacrifice for sins
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Here "sacrifice for sins" stands for "an effective way to sacrifice animals to take away sins"
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