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 good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect.

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.

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins.

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

But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.

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

For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins. Christ’s Death Fulfills God’s Will

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;

Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You have prepared for Me.

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

In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure.

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, ‘Behold, I have come— In the volume of the book it is written of Me— To do Your will, O God.’”

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—

Previously saying, “Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them ” (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, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.” 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 that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Christ’s Death Perfects the Sanctified

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 ministering daily and offering repeatedly 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 this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God,

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

from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool.

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 forever those who are being sanctified.

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

But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before,

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 is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the L ord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,”

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

then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no 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.

Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin. Hold Fast Your Confession

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

Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest 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,

by a new and living way which He consecrated 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 having a High 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 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 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 our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

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 in order to stir up 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 is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. The Just Live by Faith

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 if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a 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 fiery indignation which will 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.

Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of 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, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and 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 who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. And again, “The L ord will 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!

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the 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 recall the former days in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great struggle with 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.

partly while you were made a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while you became companions of those who were so treated;

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 you had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your goods, knowing that you have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves in heaven.

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

Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward.

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 you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you 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 little while, And He who is coming will come and will not tarry.

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.

Now the just shall live by faith; But if anyone draws back, My soul has no 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 of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.