1 For the law, having a shadow of good things to come and not the very image of the things, can never, with those sacrifices which they offered year by year, continually make the comers complete.
2 For wouldn't they then have ceased to be offered? Because the worshipers, once purged, should no longer have had a conscience that misses the mark.
3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance of sins made again every year.
4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
5 Therefore when He comes into the world, He says, Sacrifice and offering You don't desire, but a Body You have prepared Me: * * *
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have had no pleasure.
7 Then I said, Look, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of Me,) to do Your will, oh God.
8 Above when He said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin You don't desire, neither did You have pleasure in them, which are offered by the law;
9 Then He said, Look, I come to do Your will, oh God. He takes away the first so that He may establish the second.
10 By which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And every priest stands daily serving and offering often the same sacrifices which can never take away sins:
12 But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins into continuously, sat down on the Right Hand of God;
13 From now on expecting until His enemies are made His footstool.
14 For by one offering He has into continuously completed those who are sanctified.
15 Concerning this the Holy Ghost also is a Witness to us, for after that He had said before,
16 "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days," says the Lord, "I will put My laws into their innermost minds, and I will write them in their minds,
17 and I will remember their sins and iniquities no more."
18 Now where release from bondage to, and pardon from these is, there is no more offering for sin.
19 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
20 By a new and living Way, which He has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, His Flesh;
21 And having a high priest over the House of God;
22 Let us draw near with true innermost minds in full assurance of supernatural belief and trust, having our innermost minds sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold fast the profession of our divinely inspired expectation without wavering; (for He is faithful Who promised;)
24 And let us consider one another to incite to love and to good works:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but encouraging one another to righteousness, and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.
26 For if we wander from the path voluntarily after we have received the knowledge of the Truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fiery zeal, which shall devour those who oppose.
28 Whoever despised Moses' Law died without mercy under 2 or 3 witnesses:
29 Of how much worse correction, do you suppose, shall that person be worthy who has trampled the Mature Son of God under foot and has counted the Blood of the Covenant, with which that person was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of divine power for righteousness, holiness, and redemption?
30 For we know Him Who has said, Vengeance belongs to me, I will repay, says the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge His people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the Hands of the living God.
32 But remember the former days, in which, after you were given light, you endured a great fight of suffering;
33 Partly, while you were treated with contempt both by expressions of disapproval and by pressure; and partly, while you became companions of those who were going through the same thing.
34 For you had compassion toward me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
35 Therefore, don't throw your confidence, which has great repayment of reward, away.
36 For you have need of patience so that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise.
37 For yet a little while, and He Who shall come will come and will not wait.
38 Now the just shall live by supernatural belief and trust, but if any draw back, My Mind shall have no pleasure in them.
39 But we are not of those who draw back into perdition; but of those who hold supernatural belief into the obtaining and preservation of the soul life.