¹For the law , having a shadow of the good to come , not the very image of the things , can never with the same sacrifices year by year , which they offer continually , make perfect those who draw near .

²Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered , because the worshippers , having been once cleansed , would have had no more consciousness of sins?

³But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins.

⁴For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

⁵Therefore when he comes into the world , he says ,

“You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering ,

but you prepared a body for me .

⁶You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.

⁷Then I said , ‘Behold , I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me )

to do your will , O God .’”

⁸Previously saying , “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire , neither had pleasure in them ” (those which are offered according to the law ),

⁹then he has said , “Behold , I have come to do your will .” He takes away the first , that he may establish the second ,

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

¹¹Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and offering often the same sacrifices , which can never take away sins,

¹²but he , when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever , sat down on the right hand of God ,

¹³from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet .

¹⁴For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

¹⁵The Holy Spirit also testifies to us , for after saying ,

¹⁶“This is the covenant that I will make with them

after those days ,” says the Lord ,

“I will put my laws on their heart ,

I will also write them on their mind ;”

then he says ,

¹⁷“I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more .”[#Jeremiah 31:34]

¹⁸Now where remission of these is , there is no more offering for sin.

¹⁹Having therefore , brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus ,

²⁰by the way which he dedicated for us , a new and living way , through the veil , that is to say , his flesh ,

²¹and having a great priest over God ’s house ,

²²let ’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith , having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our body washed with pure water,

²³let ’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful .

²⁴Let ’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works ,

²⁵not forsaking our own assembling together , as the custom of some is , but exhorting one another , and so much the more as you see the Day approaching .

²⁶For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

²⁷but a certain fearful expectation of judgement, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries .

²⁸A man who disregards Moses ’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses .

²⁹How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God , and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing , and has insulted the Spirit of grace ?

³⁰For we know him who said , “Vengeance belongs to me . I will repay,” says the Lord . Again , “The Lord will judge his people .”[#Deuteronomy 32:35; #Deuteronomy 32:36; Psalms 135:14]

³¹It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God .

³²But remember the former days , in which , after you were enlightened , you endured a great struggle with sufferings :

³³partly , being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions, and partly , becoming partakers with those who were treated so .

³⁴For you both had compassion on me in my chains and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions , knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

³⁵Therefore don’t throw away your boldness , which has a great reward .

³⁶For you need endurance so that , having done the will of God , you may receive the promise .

³⁷“In a very little while ,

he who comes will come and will not wait.

³⁸But the righteous one will live by faith .

If he shrinks back , my soul has no pleasure in him .”

³⁹But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul .