| 1 | 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 | since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified? |
| 3 | but in those [sacrifices] is a remembrance of sins every year, |
| 4 | for it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. |
| 5 | Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, `Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not will, and a body Thou didst prepare for me, |
| 6 | in burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offerings, Thou didst not delight, |
| 7 | 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 | 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 | 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 | in the which will we are having been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once, |
| 11 | and every priest, indeed, hath stood daily serving, and the same sacrifices many times offering, that are never able to take away sins. |
| 12 | And He, for sin one sacrifice having offered -- to the end, did sit down on the right hand of God, -- |
| 13 | as to the rest, expecting till He may place his enemies [as] his footstool, |
| 14 | for by one offering he hath perfected to the end those sanctified; |
| 15 | and testify to us also doth the Holy Spirit, for after that He hath said before, |
| 16 | `This [is] 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 | and `their sins and their lawlessness I will remember no more;` |
| 18 | and where forgiveness of these [is], there is no more offering for sin. |
| 19 | Having, therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holy places, in the blood of Jesus, |
| 20 | which way he did initiate for us -- new and living, through the vail, that is, his flesh -- |
| 21 | and a high priest over the house of God, |
| 22 | 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 | may we hold fast the unwavering profession of the hope, (for faithful [is] He who did promise), |
| 24 | and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works, |
| 25 | not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain [is], but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh. |
| 26 | For we -- willfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth -- no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice, |
| 27 | but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery zeal, about to devour the opposers; |
| 28 | any one who did set at nought a law of Moses, apart from mercies, by two or three witnesses, doth die, |
| 29 | 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 | for we have known Him who is saying, `Vengeance [is] Mine, I will recompense, saith the Lord;` and again, `The Lord shall judge His people;` -- |
| 31 | fearful [is] the falling into the hands of a living God. |
| 32 | And call to your remembrance the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye did endure much conflict of sufferings, |
| 33 | partly both with reproaches and tribulations being made spectacles, and partly having become partners of those so living, |
| 34 | 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 | Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward, |
| 36 | for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise, |
| 37 | for yet a very very little, He who is coming will come, and will not tarry; |
| 38 | and `the righteous by faith shall live,` and `if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,` |
| 39 | and we are not of those drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul. |
