1 F or since the Law has merely a rude outline (foreshadowing) of the good things to come—instead of fully expressing those things—it can never by offering the same sacrifices continually year after year make perfect those who approach.

For the law, having a shadow of the coming good things, not the image itself of the things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually yearly, perfect those who approach.

2 F or if it were otherwise, would not have stopped being offered? Since the worshipers had once for all been cleansed, they would no longer have any guilt or consciousness of sin.

Since, would they not indeed have ceased being offered, on account of the worshippers once purged having no longer any conscience of sins?

3 B ut these sacrifices annually bring a fresh remembrance of sins,

But in these a calling to mind of sins yearly.

4 B ecause the blood of bulls and goats is powerless to take sins away.

For blood of bulls and goats incapable of taking away sins.

5 H ence, when He entered into the world, He said, Sacrifices and offerings You have not desired, but instead You have made ready a body for Me;

Wherefore coming into the world he says, Sacrifice and offering thou willedst not; but thou hast prepared me a body.

6 I n burnt offerings and sin offerings You have taken no delight.

Thou tookest no pleasure in burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin.

7 T hen I said, Behold, here I am, coming to do Your will, O God— what is written of Me in the volume of the Book.

Then I said, Lo, I come (in roll of the book it is written of me) to do, O God, thy will.

8 W hen He said just before, You have neither desired, nor have You taken delight in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings—all of which are offered according to the Law—

Above, saying Sacrifices and offerings and burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou willedst not, neither tookest pleasure in (which are offered according to the law);

9 H e then went on to say, Behold, I am, coming to do Your will. Thus He does away with and annuls the first (former) order so that He might inaugurate and establish the second (latter) order.

then he said, Lo, I come to do thy will. He takes away the first that he may establish the second;

10 A nd in accordance with this will, we have been made holy (consecrated and sanctified) through the offering made once for all of the body of Jesus Christ (the Anointed One).

by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

11 F urthermore, every priest stands ministering daily, offering the same sacrifices over and over again, which never are able to strip the sins and take them away—

And every priest stands daily ministering, and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

12 W hereas this One, after He had offered a single sacrifice for our sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God,

But he, having offered one sacrifice for sins, sat down in perpetuity at right hand of God,

13 T hen to wait until His enemies should be made a stool beneath His feet.

waiting from henceforth until his enemies be set footstool of his feet.

14 F or by a single offering He has forever completely cleansed and perfected those who are consecrated and made holy.

For by one offering he has perfected in perpetuity the sanctified.

15 A nd also the Holy Spirit adds His testimony to us. For having said,

And the Holy Spirit also bears us witness; for after what was said:

16 T his is the agreement (testament, covenant) that I will set up and conclude with them after those days, says the Lord: I will imprint My laws upon their hearts, and I will inscribe them on their minds (on their inmost thoughts and understanding),

This the covenant which I will establish towards them after those days, saith Lord: Giving my laws into their hearts, I will write them also in their understandings;

17 H e then goes on to say, And their sins and their lawbreaking I will remember no more.

and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more.

18 N ow where there is absolute remission (forgiveness and cancellation of the penalty) of these, there is no longer any offering made to atone for sin.

But where there remission of these, no longer a sacrifice for sin.

19 T herefore, brethren, since we have full freedom and confidence to enter into the Holies in the blood of Jesus,

Having therefore, brethren, boldness for entering into the holies by the blood of Jesus,

20 B y this fresh (new) and living way which He initiated and dedicated and opened for us through the separating curtain (veil of the Holy of Holies), that is, through His flesh,

the new and living way which he has dedicated for us through the veil, that is, his flesh,

21 A nd since we have a great and wonderful and noble Priest over the house of God,

and a great priest over the house of God,

22 L et us all come forward and draw near with true (honest and sincere) hearts in unqualified assurance and absolute conviction engendered by faith (by that leaning of the entire human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness), having our hearts sprinkled and purified from a guilty (evil) conscience and our bodies cleansed with pure water.

let us approach with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, sprinkled as to our hearts from a wicked conscience, and washed as to our body with pure water.

23 S o let us seize and hold fast and retain without wavering the hope we cherish and confess and our acknowledgement of it, for He Who promised is reliable (sure) and faithful to His word.

Let us hold fast the confession of the hope unwavering, (for he faithful who has promised;)

24 A nd let us consider and give attentive, continuous care to watching over one another, studying how we may stir up (stimulate and incite) to love and helpful deeds and noble activities,

and let us consider one another for provoking to love and good works;

25 N ot forsaking or neglecting to assemble together, as is the habit of some people, but admonishing (warning, urging, and encouraging) one another, and all the more faithfully as you see the day approaching.

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the custom with some; but encouraging, and by so much the more as ye see the day drawing near.

26 F or if we go on deliberately and willingly sinning after once acquiring the knowledge of the Truth, there is no longer any sacrifice left to atone for sins.

For where we sin wilfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains any sacrifice for sins,

27 b ut a kind of awful and fearful prospect and expectation of divine judgment and the fury of burning wrath and indignation which will consume those who put themselves in opposition.

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and heat of fire about to devour the adversaries.

28 A ny person who has violated and rejected and set at naught the Law of Moses is put to death without pity or mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses.

Any one that has disregarded Moses' law dies without mercy on two or three witnesses:

29 H ow much worse (sterner and heavier) punishment do you suppose he will be judged to deserve who has spurned and trampled underfoot the Son of God, and who has considered the covenant blood by which he was consecrated common and unhallowed, thus profaning it and insulting and outraging the Spirit grace (the unmerited favor and blessing of God)?

of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and esteemed the blood of the covenant, whereby he has been sanctified, common, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

30 F or we know Him Who said, Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord. And again, The Lord will judge and determine and solve and settle the cause and the cases of His people.

For we know him that said, To me vengeance; I will recompense, saith the Lord: and again, The Lord shall judge his people.

31 I t is a fearful (formidable and terrible) thing to incur the divine penalties and be cast into the hands of the living God!

a fearful thing falling into hands of living God.

32 B ut be ever mindful of the days gone by in which, after you were first spiritually enlightened, you endured a great and painful struggle,

But call to mind the earlier days in which, having been enlightened, ye endured much conflict of sufferings;

33 S ometimes being yourselves a gazingstock, publicly exposed to insults and abuse and distress, and sometimes claiming fellowship and making common cause with others who were so treated.

on the one hand, when ye were made a spectacle both in reproaches and afflictions; and on the other, when ye became partakers with those who were passing through them.

34 F or you did sympathize and suffer along with those who were imprisoned, and you bore cheerfully the plundering of your belongings and the confiscation of your property, in the knowledge and consciousness that you yourselves had a better and lasting possession.

For ye both sympathised with prisoners and accepted with joy the plunder of your goods, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better substance, and an abiding one.

35 D o not, therefore, fling away your fearless confidence, for it carries a great and glorious compensation of reward.

Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense.

36 F or you have need of steadfast patience and endurance, so that you may perform and fully accomplish the will of God, and thus receive and carry away what is promised.

For ye have need of endurance in order that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

37 F or still a little while (a very little while), and the Coming One will come and He will not delay.

For yet a very little while he that comes will come, and will not delay.

38 B ut the just shall live by faith '> by his conviction respecting man’s relationship to God and divine things, and holy fervor born of faith and conjoined with it]; and if he draws back and shrinks in fear, My soul has no delight or pleasure in him.

But the just shall live by faith; and, if he draw back, my soul does not take pleasure in him.

39 B ut our way is not that of those who draw back to eternal misery (perdition) and are utterly destroyed, but we are of those who believe and by faith preserve the soul.

But we are not drawers back to perdition, but of faith to saving soul.