[1] For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of
the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they
offer continually, make perfect those who draw near. [2] Or else wouldn`t
they have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once
cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins? [3] But in those
sacrifices there is a memory made of sins year by year. [4] For it is
impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. [5]
Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and offering
you didn`t desire, But a body did you prepare for me; [6] In whole burnt
offerings and sacrifices for sin you had no pleasure. [7] Then I
said, `Behold, I have come (In the scroll of the book it is written
of me) To do your will, God.`" [8] Saying above, "Sacrifices and offerings
and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn`t desire, neither
had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the law), [9]
then has he said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the
first, that he may establish the second, [10] by which will we have been
sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
[11] Every priest indeed stands day by day ministering and often offering
the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins, [12] but he, when he
had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of
God; [13] henceforth expecting until his enemies to be made the footstool
of his feet. [14] For by one offering he has perfected forever those who
are sanctified. [15] The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after he has
said, [16] "This is the covenant that I will make with them: `After those
days,` says the Lord, `I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write
them on their mind;`" then, [17] "I will remember their sins and their
iniquities no more." [18] Now where remission of these is, there is no more
offering for sin. [19] Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into
the holy place by the blood of Jesus, [20] by the way which he dedicated
for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
[21] and having a great priest over the house of God; [22] let us draw near
with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an
evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water, [23] let us
hold fast the confession of our hope unyieldingly. For he who promised is
faithful. [24] Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good
works, [25] not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of
some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the
Day approaching. [26] For if we sin willfully after we have received the
knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, [27]
but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire
which will devour the adversaries. [28] A man who has set at nothing Moses`
law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses. [29] How
much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has
trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the
covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the
Spirit of grace? [30] For we know him who said, "Vengeance belongs to me,"
says the Lord, "I will repay." Again, "The Lord will 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 enlightened, you
endured a great struggle with sufferings; [33] partly, being exposed to
both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those
who were treated so. [34] For you both had compassion on me in my chains,
and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you
have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.
[35] Therefore don`t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
[36] For you need patience, so that, having done the will of God, you may
receive the promise. [37] "For yet a very little while, He who comes will
come, and will not wait. [38] But the righteous will live by faith. If he
shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him." [39] But we are not of those
who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving
of the soul.
