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title: Hebrews 10:22
url: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/hebrews-10-22/
markdown: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/hebrews-10-22.md
type: verse
perspective: Protestant (historic Nicene) response to Jehovah's Witness teaching
reference: Hebrews 10:22
testament: NT
section: Letters
index: https://jw-apologetics.app/llms.txt
---

# Hebrews 10:22

## Text (Berean Standard Bible)

> let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

## JW Usage

The Watchtower typically reads Hebrews 10:22's "let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith" as counsel addressed to the 144,000 anointed who are parties to the new covenant. The great crowd is said to have a different kind of standing — beneficiaries of Christ's ransom, but without the direct priestly access the verse describes.

## Protestant Usage

The "us" of Hebrews 10:22 cannot be split into covenant parties and covenant beneficiaries without violence to the text. Verses 19-22 form one sentence: "having boldness for the entrance into the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus... let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith." The Old Testament separation between priests and laypeople is explicitly dismantled — every reader can enter the Most Holy Place because of the torn curtain (Matthew 27:51). And the mode of approach is "full assurance of faith," not "full accumulation of compliance." Pair with 1 Peter 2:9 (royal priesthood of every believer) and the doorstep form: "Your own NWT says 'let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith.' Full assurance — is that what you have, or is your standing conditional?"

## Arguments Using This Verse

- [Eternal Salvation to All Who Obey Him](https://jw-apologetics.app/arguments/hebrews5-9-obey-salvation.md) — Hebrews 5:9 and the obedience of faith [Salvation]