1 F or 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 s ince, 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 in those is a remembrance of sins every year,

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

5 W herefore, 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 concerning sin-offerings, Thou didst not delight,

7 t hen I said, Lo, I come, (in a volume of the book it hath been written concerning me,) to do, O God, Thy will;'

8 s aying 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, `Lo, I come to do, O God, Thy will;' he doth take away the first that the second he may establish;

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

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

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

13 a s to the rest, expecting till He may place his enemies his footstool,

14 f or by one offering he hath perfected to the end those sanctified;

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

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

18 a nd where forgiveness of these, there is no more offering for sin.

19 H aving, therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holy places, in the blood of Jesus,

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

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

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

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

25 n ot 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 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 certain fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery zeal, about to devour the opposers;

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

29 o f 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 have known Him who is saying, `Vengeance Mine, I will recompense, saith the Lord;' and again, `The Lord shall judge His people;' --

31 f earful the falling into the hands of a living God.

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

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

34 f or 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 Y e may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward,

36 f or of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise,

37 f or yet a very very little, He who is coming will come, and will not tarry;

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

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