1 T he Law is like a picture of the good things to come. The Jewish religious leaders gave gifts on the altar in worship to God all the time year after year. Those gifts could not make the people who came to worship perfect.

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 I f those gifts given to God could take away sins, the people who came to worship would no longer feel guilty of sin. They would have given no more gifts.

since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified?

3 W hen they gave the gifts year after year, it made them remember that they still had their sins.

but in those is a remembrance of sins every year,

4 T he blood of animals cannot take away the sins of men. In The New Way of Worship One Gift Was Given

for it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

5 W hen Christ came to the world, He said to God, “You do not want animals killed or gifts given in worship. You have made My body ready to give as a gift.

Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, `Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not will, and a body Thou didst prepare for me,

6 Y ou are not pleased with animals that have been killed or burned and given as gifts on the altar to take away sin.

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

7 T hen I said, ‘I have come to do what You want, O God. It is written in the Law that I would.’”

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 T hen Christ said, “You do not want animals killed or gifts given in worship to you for sin. You are not pleased with them.” These things are done because the Law says they should be done.

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 T hen He said, “I have come to do what You want Me to do.” And this is what He did when He died on a cross. God did away with the Old Way of Worship and made a New Way of Worship.

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 O ur sins are washed away and we are made clean because Christ gave His own body as a gift to God. He did this once for all time.

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

11 A ll Jewish religious leaders stand every day killing animals and giving gifts on the altar. They give the same gifts over and over again. These gifts cannot take away sins.

and every priest, indeed, hath stood daily serving, and the same sacrifices many times offering, that are never able to take away sins.

12 B ut Christ gave Himself once for sins and that is good forever. After that He sat down at the right side of God.

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

13 H e is waiting there for God to make of those who have hated Him a place to rest His feet.

as to the rest, expecting till He may place his enemies his footstool,

14 A nd by one gift He has made perfect forever all those who are being set apart for God-like living.

for by one offering he hath perfected to the end those sanctified;

15 T he Holy Spirit tells us this: First He says,

and testify to us also doth the Holy Spirit, for after that He hath said before,

16 “ This is the New Way of Worship that I will give them. When that day comes, says the Lord, I will put My Laws in their hearts. And I will write them in their minds.” Then He says,

`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 “ I will not remember their sins and wrong-doings anymore.”

and `their sins and their lawlessness I will remember no more;'

18 N o more gifts on the altar in worship are needed when our sins are forgiven. We Can Go to God Through Christ

and where forgiveness of these, there is no more offering for sin.

19 C hristian brothers, now we know we can go into the Holiest Place of All because the blood of Jesus was given.

Having, therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holy places, in the blood of Jesus,

20 W e now come to God by the new and living way. Christ made this way for us. He opened the curtain, which was His own body.

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

21 W e have a great Religious Leader over the house of God.

and a high priest over the house of God,

22 A nd so let us come near to God with a true heart full of faith. Our hearts must be made clean from guilty feelings and our bodies washed 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 L et us hold on to the hope we say we have and not be changed. We can trust God that He will do what He promised.

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

24 L et us help each other to love others and to do good.

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,

25 L et us not stay away from church meetings. Some people are doing this all the time. Comfort each other as you see the day of His return coming near. Do Not Fall Back Into Sin

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 I f we keep on sinning because we want to after we have received and know the truth, there is no gift that will take away sins then.

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

27 I nstead, we will stand before God and on that day He will judge us. And the hot fires of hell will burn up those who work against God.

but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery zeal, about to devour the opposers;

28 A nyone who did not obey the Old Way of Worship died without loving-kindness when two or three men spoke against him.

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 more will a man have to be punished if he walks on and hates the Son of God? How much more will he be punished if he acts as if the blood of God’s New Way of Worship is worth nothing? This New Way of Worship is God’s way of making him holy. How much more will he be punished if he laughs at the Holy Spirit Who wanted to show him loving-favor?

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 God said, “I will pay back what is coming to them.” And, “The Lord will judge 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 T he very worst thing that can happen to a man is to fall into the hands of the living God!

fearful the falling into the hands of a living God.

32 R emember how it was in those days after you heard the truth. You suffered much.

And call to your remembrance the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye did endure much conflict of sufferings,

33 P eople laughed at you and beat you. When others suffered, you suffered with them.

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

34 Y ou had loving-pity for those who were in prison. You had joy when your things were taken away from you. For you knew you would have something better in heaven which would last forever.

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 throw away your trust, for your reward will be great.

Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward,

36 Y ou must be willing to wait without giving up. After you have done what God wants you to do, God will give you what He promised you.

for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise,

37 T he Holy Writings say, “In a little while, the One you are looking for will come. It will not be a long time now.

for yet a very very little, He who is coming will come, and will not tarry;

38 F or the one right with God lives by faith. If anyone turns back, I will not be pleased with him.”

and `the righteous by faith shall live,' and `if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,'

39 W e are not of those people who turn back and are lost. Instead, we have faith to be saved from the punishment of sin.

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