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 those who draw near perfect.
2. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshipers once cleansed would have had no more consciousness of sins.
3. But in those sacrifices there is a reminder again made of sins 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 did not desire, but a body have you prepared for me:
6. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have had no pleasure.
7. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do your will, O God.
8. Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin you did not desire, neither had pleasure in them; which are offered according to the law;
9. Then said he, Lo, I come to do your will, O God. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second.
10. By this will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time.
11. And every priest stands daily ministering and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
12. But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
13. From then on waiting till his enemies should be made his footstool.
14. For by one offering he has perfected for ever those who are sanctified.
15. Of this the Holy Spirit also is a witness to us: for after he had said before,
16. This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, the Lord says, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17. And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
19. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the sanctuary 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 a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
23. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
24. And let us consider one another to provoke to love and to good works:
25. Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner 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 sacrifice for sins,
27. But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation which shall devour the adversaries.
28. He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29. Of how much severer punishment, do you suppose, shall he be thought worthy who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has considered the blood of the covenant, with which he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has despised the Spirit of grace?
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 call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle of afflictions;
33. Partly, while you were made a gazing stock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, while you became companions of those who were so treated.
34. For you had compassion on me in my bonds, and accepted joyfully the plundering of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in heaven a better and an enduring possession.
35. Do not cast away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense of reward.
36. For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise.
37. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not delay.
38. Now the just shall live by faith: but if anyone draws back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39. But we are not of those who draw back to destruction; but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.
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