| 1 | For the law having a shadow of good things to come , [and] not the very image of the things , can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect . |
| 2 | For then would they not have ceased to be offered ? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins . |
| 3 | But in those [sacrifices there is] a remembrance again [made] of sins every year . |
| 4 | For [it is] not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins . |
| 5 | Wherefore when he cometh into the world , he saith , Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not , but a body hast thou prepared me : |
| 6 | In burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hast had no pleasure . |
| 7 | Then said I , Lo , I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me ,) to do thy will , O God . |
| 8 | Above when he said , Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and [offering] for sin thou wouldest not , neither hadst pleasure [therein]; which are offered by the law ; |
| 9 | Then said he , Lo , I come to do thy will , O God . He taketh away the first , that he may establish the second . |
| 10 | By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once [for all]. |
| 11 | And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices , which can never take away sins : |
| 12 | But this man , after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever , sat down on the right hand of God ; |
| 13 | From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool . |
| 14 | For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified . |
| 15 | [Whereof] the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us : for after that he had said before , |
| 16 | This [is] the covenant that I will make with them after those days , saith the Lord , I will put my laws into their hearts , and in their minds will I write them ; |
| 17 | And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more . |
| 18 | Now where remission of these [is, there is] no more offering for sin . |
| 19 | Having therefore , brethren , boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus , |
| 20 | By a new and living way , which he hath consecrated for us , through the veil , that is to say , his flesh ; |
| 21 | And [having] an high priest over the house of God ; |
| 22 | Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith , having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience , and our bodies washed with pure water . |
| 23 | Let us hold fast the profession of [our] faith without wavering ; (for he [is] faithful that promised ;) |
| 24 | And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works : |
| 25 | Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together , as the manner of some [is]; but exhorting [one another]: and so much the more , as ye see the day approaching . |
| 26 | For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth , there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins , |
| 27 | But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation , which shall devour the adversaries . |
| 28 | He that despised Moses ' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses : |
| 29 | Of how much sorer punishment , suppose ye , shall he be thought worthy , who hath trodden under foot the Son of God , and hath counted the blood of the covenant , wherewith he was sanctified , an unholy thing , and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace ? |
| 30 | For we know him that hath said , Vengeance [belongeth] unto me , I will recompense , saith the Lord . And again , The Lord shall judge his people . |
| 31 | [It is] a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God . |
| 32 | But call to remembrance the former days , in which , after ye were illuminated , ye endured a great fight of afflictions ; |
| 33 | Partly , whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions ; and partly , whilst ye became companions of them that were so used . |
| 34 | For ye had compassion of me in my bonds , and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods , knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance . |
| 35 | Cast not away therefore your confidence , which hath great recompence of reward . |
| 36 | For ye have need of patience , that , after ye have done the will of God , ye might receive the promise . |
| 37 | For yet a little while , and he that shall come will come , and will not tarry . |
| 38 | Now the just shall live by faith : but if [any man] draw back , my soul shall have no pleasure in him . |
| 39 | But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition ; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul . |
