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 very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near,

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 have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified?

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

but in those is a remembrance of sins every year,

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

for it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take 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 saith, `Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not will, and a body Thou didst prepare for me,

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

in burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offerings, Thou didst not delight,

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 a volume of the book it hath been written concerning 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—

saying above -- `Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offering Thou didst not will, nor delight in,' -- which according to the law are offered --

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, O God, Thy will;' he doth take away the first that the second he may establish;

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).

in the which will we are having been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once,

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, indeed, hath stood daily serving, and the same sacrifices many times offering, that are never able to 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,

And He, for sin one sacrifice having offered -- to the end, did sit down on the right hand of God, --

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

as to the rest, expecting till He may place his enemies 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 hath perfected to the end those sanctified;

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

and testify to us also doth the Holy Spirit, for after that He hath 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 the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws on their hearts, and upon 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.

and `their sins and their lawlessness 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.

and where forgiveness of these, there is no more offering 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 the entrance into the holy places, in 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,

which way he did initiate for us -- new and living, through the vail, that is, his flesh --

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

and 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.

may we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed 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.

may we hold fast the unwavering profession of the hope, (for faithful He who did promise),

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 may we consider one another to provoke to love and to 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 a custom of certain, but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.

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 we -- willfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth -- no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice,

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 looking for of judgment, and fiery zeal, about to devour the opposers;

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 who did set at nought a law of Moses, apart from mercies, by two or three witnesses, doth die,

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 sorer punishment shall he be counted worthy who the Son of God did trample on, and the blood of the covenant did count a common thing, in which he was sanctified, and to the Spirit of the grace did despite?

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 have known Him who is saying, `Vengeance Mine, 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!

fearful the falling into the hands of a 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,

And call to your remembrance the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye did endure 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.

partly both with reproaches and tribulations being made spectacles, and partly having become partners of those so living,

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 also with my bonds ye sympathised, and the robbery of your goods with joy ye did receive, knowing that ye have in yourselves a better substance in the heavens, and an enduring one.

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

Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of 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 of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, 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 very little, 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.

and `the righteous by faith shall live,' and `if he may draw back, My soul hath 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.

and we are not of those drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul.