'And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying, “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,” then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.” '
- Hebrews 10:11-17 ESV
We are completely forgiven.
We’re still flawed.
'For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. '
- Romans 7:18-20 ESV
We’re being formed into the image of Christ.
'For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.’
- Hebrews 10:14 ESV
“I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds.”
- Hebrews 10:16 ESV
We can partner with the Holy Spirit to become more like Christ.
'For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.'
- Romans 8:3-4,13 ESV