1 P ues ya que la ley sólo tiene la sombra de los bienes futuros y no la forma misma de las cosas, nunca puede, por los mismos sacrificios que ellos ofrecen continuamente año tras año, hacer perfectos a los que se acercan.

For 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.

2 D e otra manera, ¿no habrían cesado de ofrecerse, ya que los adoradores, una vez purificados, no tendrían ya más conciencia de pecado ?

For 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.

3 P ero en esos sacrificios hay un recordatorio de pecados año tras año.

But these sacrifices annually bring a fresh remembrance of sins,

4 P orque es imposible que la sangre de toros y de machos cabríos quite los pecados.

Because the blood of bulls and goats is powerless to take sins away.

5 P or lo cual, al entrar El en el mundo, dice: Sacrificio y ofrenda no has querido, pero un cuerpo has preparado para mi;

Hence, 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;

6 e n holocaustos y sacrificios por el pecado no te has complacido.

In burnt offerings and sin offerings You have taken no delight.

7 E ntonces dije: “He aqui, yo he venido ( en el rollo del libro esta escrito de mi ) para hacer, oh Dios, tu voluntad.”

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

8 H abiendo dicho arriba: Sacrificios y ofrendas y holocaustos, y sacrificios por el pecado no has querido, ni en ellos te has complacido (los cuales se ofrecen según la ley),

When 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—

9 e ntonces dijo: He aqui, yo he venido para hacer tu voluntad. El quita lo primero para establecer lo segundo.

He 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.

10 P or esta voluntad hemos sido santificados mediante la ofrenda del cuerpo de Jesucristo ofrecida de una vez para siempre. Cristo puede quitar los pecados

And 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).

11 Y ciertamente todo sacerdote está de pie, día tras día, ministrando y ofreciendo muchas veces los mismos sacrificios, que nunca pueden quitar los pecados;

Furthermore, 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—

12 p ero El, habiendo ofrecido un solo sacrificio por los pecados para siempre, se sento a la diestra de Dios,

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

13 e sperando de ahí en adelante hasta que sus enemigos sean puestos por estrado de sus pies.

Then to wait until His enemies should be made a stool beneath His feet.

14 P orque por una ofrenda El ha hecho perfectos para siempre a los que son santificados.

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

15 Y también el Espíritu Santo nos da testimonio; porque después de haber dicho:

And also the Holy Spirit adds His testimony to us. For having said,

16 E ste es el pacto que hare con ellos despues de aquellos dias — dice el Señor: Pondre mis leyes en su corazon, y en su mente las escribire, añade:

This 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),

17 Y nunca mas me acordare de sus pecados e iniquidades.

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

18 A hora bien, donde hay perdón de estas cosas, ya no hay ofrenda por el pecado. Exhortación a la perseverancia

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

19 E ntonces, hermanos, puesto que tenemos confianza para entrar al Lugar Santísimo por la sangre de Jesús,

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

20 p or un camino nuevo y vivo que El inauguró para nosotros por medio del velo, es decir, su carne,

By 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,

21 y puesto que tenemos un gran sacerdote sobre la casa de Dios,

And since we have a great and wonderful and noble Priest over the house of God,

22 a cerquémonos con corazón sincero, en plena certidumbre de fe, teniendo nuestro corazón purificado de mala conciencia y nuestro cuerpo lavado con agua pura.

Let 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.

23 M antengamos firme la profesión de nuestra esperanza sin vacilar, porque fiel es el que prometió;

So 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.

24 y consideremos cómo estimularnos unos a otros al amor y a las buenas obras,

And 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,

25 n o dejando de congregarnos, como algunos tienen por costumbre, sino exhortándonos unos a otros, y mucho más al ver que el día se acerca. Advertencia a los que continúan pecando

Not 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.

26 P orque si continuamos pecando deliberadamente después de haber recibido el conocimiento de la verdad, ya no queda sacrificio alguno por los pecados,

For 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.

27 s ino cierta horrenda expectación de juicio, y la furia de un fuego que ha de consumir a los adversarios.

but 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.

28 C ualquiera que viola la ley de Moisés muere sin misericordia por el testimonio de dos o tres testigos.

Any 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.

29 ¿ Cuánto mayor castigo pensáis que merecerá el que ha hollado bajo sus pies al Hijo de Dios, y ha tenido por inmunda la sangre del pacto por la cual fue santificado, y ha ultrajado al Espíritu de gracia ?

How 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)?

30 P ues conocemos al que dijo: Mia es la venganza, yo pagare. Y otra vez: El Señor juzgara a su pueblo.

For 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.

31 ¡ Horrenda cosa es caer en las manos del Dios vivo! Necesidad de perseverar

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

32 P ero recordad los días pasados, cuando después de haber sido iluminados, soportasteis una gran lucha de padecimientos;

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

33 p or una parte, siendo hechos un espectáculo público en oprobios y aflicciones, y por otra, siendo compañeros de los que eran tratados así.

Sometimes 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.

34 P orque tuvisteis compasión de los prisioneros y aceptasteis con gozo el despojo de vuestros bienes, sabiendo que tenéis para vosotros mismos una mejor y más duradera posesión.

For 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.

35 P or tanto, no desechéis vuestra confianza, la cual tiene gran recompensa.

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

36 P orque tenéis necesidad de paciencia, para que cuando hayáis hecho la voluntad de Dios, obtengáis la promesa.

For 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.

37 P orque dentro de muy poco tiempo, el que ha de venir vendra y no tardara.

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

38 M as mi justo vivira por la fe; y si retrocede, mi alma no se complacera en el.

But 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.

39 P ero nosotros no somos de los que retroceden para perdición, sino de los que tienen fe para la preservación del alma.

But 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.