1 F or 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 S ince, 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 in these a calling to mind of sins yearly.

4 F or blood of bulls and goats incapable of taking away sins.

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

6 T hou tookest no pleasure in burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin.

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

8 A bove, 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 t hen he said, Lo, I come to do thy will. He takes away the first that he may establish the second;

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

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

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

13 w aiting from henceforth until his enemies be set footstool of his feet.

14 F or by one offering he has perfected in perpetuity the sanctified.

15 A nd the Holy Spirit also bears us witness; for after what was said:

16 T his 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 a nd their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more.

18 B ut where there remission of these, no longer a sacrifice for sin.

19 H aving therefore, brethren, boldness for entering into the holies by the blood of Jesus,

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

21 a nd a great priest over the house of God,

22 l et 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 L et us hold fast the confession of the hope unwavering, (for he faithful who has promised;)

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

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

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

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

29 o f 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 that said, To me vengeance; I will recompense, saith the Lord: and again, The Lord shall judge his people.

31 a fearful thing falling into hands of living God.

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

33 o n 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 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 C ast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense.

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

37 F or yet a very little while he that comes will come, and will not delay.

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

39 B ut we are not drawers back to perdition, but of faith to saving soul.