| King James Bible | New International Version |
| 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. | 1The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming--not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. |
| 2For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. | 2Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. |
| 3But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. | 3But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins. |
| 4For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. | 4It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. |
| 5Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: | 5Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; |
| 6In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. | 6with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased. |
| 7Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. | 7Then I said, 'Here I am--it is written about me in the scroll-- I have come to do your will, my God.'" |
| 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; | 8First he said, "Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them"--though they were offered in accordance with the law. |
| 9Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. | 9Then he said, "Here I am, I have come to do your will." He sets aside the first to establish the second. |
| 10By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. | 10And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. |
| 11And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: | 11Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. |
| 12But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; | 12But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, |
| 13From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. | 13and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool. |
| 14For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. | 14For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy. |
| 15Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, | 15The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says: |
| 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; | 16"This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds." |
| 17And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. | 17Then he adds: "Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more." |
| 18Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. | 18And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary. |
| 19Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, | 19Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, |
| 20By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; | 20by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, |
| 21And having an high priest over the house of God; | 21and since we have a great priest over the house of God, |
| 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. | 22let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. |
| 23Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) | 23Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. |
| 24And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: | 24And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, |
| 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. | 25not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another--and all the more as you see the Day approaching. |
| 26For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, | 26If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, |
| 27But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. | 27but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. |
| 28He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: | 28Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. |
| 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? | 29How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? |
| 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. | 30For we know him who said, "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge his people." |
| 31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. | 31It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. |
| 32But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; | 32Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering. |
| 33Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used. | 33Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated. |
| 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. | 34You suffered along with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions. |
| 35Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. | 35So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. |
| 36For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. | 36You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. |
| 37For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. | 37For, "In just a little while, he who is coming will come and will not delay." |
| 38Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. | 38And, "But my righteous one will live by faith. And I take no pleasure in the one who shrinks back." |
| 39But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. | 39But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved. |
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