1For the Law which has a shadow of good things to come, not the very image of the things, [appearing] year by year with the same sacrifices, which they offer continually, they are never able to perfect those drawing near. 2For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshipers, when they had been once for all purged, would have had no more conscience of sin. 3But in those [sacrifices there is] a remembrance again of sins every year. 4For [it is] not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. 5Therefore when He comes into the world, He says, Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but You have prepared a body for Me. 6In burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin You have had no pleasure. 7Then I said, Lo, I come ( in the] volume of the Book it is written of Me) to do Your will, O God. 8Above, when He said, Sacrifice and offering, and burnt offerings and [offering] for sin You did not desire, neither did You have pleasure in them (which are offered according to the Law), 9then He said, Lo, I come to do Your will, O God. He takes away the first so that He may establish the second. 10By this will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11And indeed every priest stands daily ministering and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down [on the] right of God, 13from then on expecting until His enemies are made His footstool. 14For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are sanctified. 15The Holy Spirit also is a witness to us; for after He had said before, 16This [is] the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them, 17also [He adds, their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more. 18Now where remission of these [is, there is] no more offering for sin. 19Therefore, brothers, having boldness to enter into the [Holy of] Holies by the blood of Jesus, 20by a new and living way which He has consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say, His flesh; 21and [having] a High 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 having been washed with pure water. 23Let us hold fast the profession of [our] faith without wavering (for He is faithful who promised), 24and let us consider one another to provoke to love and to good works, 25not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some [is], but exhorting [one another], and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. 26For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins, 27but a certain fearful looking for judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. 28He who despised Moses' law died without mercy on [the word of] two or three witnesses. 29Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy of punishment, the [one] who has trampled the Son of God, and who has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? 30For we know Him who has said, Vengeance [belongs] to Me, I will repay, says [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. 32But call to memory the former days, in which (after you were illuminated) you endured a great fight of afflictions, 33indeed being exposed both by reproaches and afflictions, and while you became companions of those who lived so. 34For you both sympathized with my bonds and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in Heaven a better and an enduring substance. 35Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great [recompense of] reward. 36For you have need of patience, so that after you have done the will of God you might receive the promise. 37For yet a little while, and He who shall come will come and will not delay. 38Now, the Just shall live by faith. But if he draws back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him. 39But we are not of those] withdrawing to destruction, but of those who believe to [the] preserving of [the] soul.