10
1 For
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.
2 Or
else wouldn’t they
have ceased to
be offered,
because the
worshipers, having
been once cleansed,
would have had
no more
consciousness of sins?
3 But in
those sacrifices there
is a yearly reminder
of sins.
4 For
it is impossible
that the blood of
bulls and goats
should take away sins.
5 Therefore
when he comes
into the world,
he says,
“You didn’t
desire sacrifice
and offering,
but you prepared
a body for
me.
6 You
had no pleasure
in whole burnt
offerings and sacrifices
for sin.
7 Then
I said, ‘Behold,
I have come (in
the scroll of
the book it
is written of
me)
to do your
will, O God.’ ”
8 Previously
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),
9 then
he has said, “Behold, I have come
to do your
will.” He takes away
the first, that
he may establish
the second,
10 by
which will we
have been sanctified
through the
offering of the
body of Jesus
Christ once for
all.
11 Every
priest indeed
stands day by
day serving and
offering often the
same sacrifices,
which can never
take away sins,
12 but
he, when he
had offered one
sacrifice for sins
forever, sat down
on the right
hand of God,
13 from
that time waiting
until his enemies
are made the
footstool of his
feet.
14 For
by one offering
he has perfected
forever those who
are being sanctified.
15 The
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.”
18 Now
where remission of
these is, there
is no more
offering for sin.
19 Having
therefore, brothers, boldness
to enter into
the holy place by
the blood of Jesus,
20 by
the way which
he dedicated for
us, a new
and living way,
through the veil,
that is to
say, his flesh,
21 and
having a great
priest over God’s
house,
22 let’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,
23 let’s
hold fast the
confession of our
hope without wavering;
for he who
promised is
faithful.
24 Let’s
consider how to
provoke one another
to love and good
works,
25 not
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.
26 For if
we sin willfully
after we have
received the
knowledge of
the truth, there remains
no more a
sacrifice for sins,
27 but
a certain fearful
expectation of
judgment, and
a fierceness of
fire which will
devour the
adversaries.
28 A
man who disregards
Moses’ law dies
without compassion
on the word of
two or three
witnesses.
29 How
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?
30 For
we know him
who said, “Vengeance
belongs to me. I
will repay,” says
the Lord.
Again, “The Lord
will judge his
people.”
31 It
is a fearful
thing to fall
into the hands
of the living
God.
32 But remember
the former days,
in which, after
you were
enlightened, you
endured a
great struggle with
sufferings:
33 partly,
being exposed to
both reproaches
and oppressions, and
partly, becoming
partakers with
those who
were treated so.
34 For
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.
35 Therefore don’t throw away
your boldness,
which has a
great reward.
36 For
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.
38 But
the righteous one
will live by
faith.
If he shrinks
back, my soul
has no pleasure
in him.”
39 But
we are not
of those who
shrink back
to destruction, but
of those who
have faith to
the saving of
the soul.