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1For the Law, being only a reflection of the blessings to come and not their substance, can never make perfect those who come near by the same sacrifices repeatedly offered year after year.

1For 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.

2Otherwise, would they not have stopped offering them, because the worshipers, cleansed once for all, would no longer be aware of any sins?

2For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

3Instead, through those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year,

3But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.

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

4For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

5For this reason, the Scriptures say, when the Messiah was about to come into the world: "You did not want sacrifices and offerings, but you prepared a body for me.

5Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

6In burnt offerings and sin offerings you never took delight.

6In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

7Then I said, 'See, I have come to do your will, O God' In the volume of the scroll this is written about me."

7Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

8In this passage he says, "You never wanted or took delight in sacrifices, offerings, burnt offerings, and sin offerings," which are offered according to the Law.

8Above 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;

9Then he says, "See, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first in order to establish the second.

9Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

10By God's will we have been sanctified once and for all through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus, the Messiah.

10By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

11Day after day every priest stands and repeatedly offers the same sacrifices that can never take away sins.

11And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

12But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, "he sat down at the right hand of God."

12But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

13Since that time, he has been waiting for his enemies to be made a footstool for his feet.

13From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

14For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

14For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

15The Holy Spirit also assures us of this, for he said:

15Whereof 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, declares the Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts and will write them on their minds,

16This 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;

17and I will never again remember their sins and their lawless deeds."

17And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

18Now where there is forgiveness of these sins, there is no longer any offering for sin.

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

19Therefore, my brothers, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,

19Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,

20the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain (that is, through his flesh),

20By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

21and since we have a great high priest over the household of God,

21And having an high priest over the house of God;

22let us continue to come near with sincere hearts in the full assurance that faith provides, because our hearts have been sprinkled clean from a guilty conscience, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.

22Let 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.

23Let us continue to hold firmly to the hope that we confess without wavering, for the one who made the promise is faithful.

23Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

24And let us continue to consider how to motivate one another to love and good deeds,

24And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

25not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another even more as you see the day of the Lord coming nearer.

25Not 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.

26For if we choose to go on sinning after we have learned the full truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

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

27but only a terrifying prospect of judgment and a raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.

27But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

28Anyone who violates the Law of Moses dies without mercy "on the testimony of two or three witnesses."

28He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

29How much more severe a punishment do you think that person deserves who tramples on God's Son, treats as common the blood of the covenant by which it was sanctified, and insults the Spirit of grace?

29Of 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?

30For we know the one who said, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will pay them back," and again, "The Lord will judge his people."

30For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

31It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God!

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

32But you must continue to remember those earlier days, how after you were enlightened you endured a hard and painful struggle.

32But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

33At times you were made a public spectacle by means of insults and persecutions, while at other times you associated with people who were treated this way.

33Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.

34For you sympathized with the prisoners and cheerfully submitted to the violent seizure of your property, because you know that you have a better and more permanent possession.

34For 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.

35So don't lose your confidence, since it holds a great reward for you.

35Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

36For you need endurance, so that after you have done God's will you can receive what he has promised.

36For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

37For "in a very little while the one who is coming will return— he will not delay;

37For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.

38but my righteous one will live by faith, and if he turns back, my soul will take no pleasure in him."

38Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

39Now, we do not belong to those who turn back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.

39But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

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