Hebrews10:29

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Translation

How much worse do you think he will deserve punishment who has trampled on the SON OF GOD, and has esteemed the blood of the covenant which sanctified him as something unholy,

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and has treated contemptuously the Spirit of grace?

Paraphrase

How much more severely do you think someone should be punished who by his actions has rejected and shown disdain for THE CO-CREATOR AND CO-OWNER OF ALL THINGS, and acted in ways that demonstrate that he thinks the blood-pledge that bound him to the covenant and set him apart as holy was something shameful and dirty, and has treated with reproach the grace-filled Holy Spirit?

Footnotes

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The word I have rendered as “unholy” means “common, defiled, profane.” The reason for this is that things are either common or uncommon (holy). If some that was holy is no longer holy it was made common by some act of defilement or contamination.