1For the law having a shadow of the good [things] to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near. 2Or else would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins. 3But in those [sacrifices] there is a remembrance made of sins year by year. 4For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. 5Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering you did not want, But you prepared a body for me; 6In whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin you had no pleasure: 7Then I said, Look, I have come (In the roll of the book it is written of me) To do your will, O God. 8Saying above, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin you did not want, neither had pleasure in them (which are offered according to the law), 9then he has said, Look, I have come to do your will. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second. 10By whose will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11And every priest indeed stands day by day ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, the which can never take away sins: 12but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God; 13from now on expecting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet. 14For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are sanctified. 15And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after he has said, 16This is the covenant that I will make with them After those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws on their heart, And on their mind also I will write them; [then he says,] 17And their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more. 18Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. 19Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, 20by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21and [having] a great priest over the house of God; 22let us draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed in pure water, 23let us hold fast the confession of the unwavering hope; for he who promised is faithful: 24and let us consider one another to provoke to love and good works; 25not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting [one another]; and so much the more, as you{+} see the day drawing near. 26For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, 27but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries. 28A man who has set at nothing Moses' law dies without compassion on [the word of] two or three witnesses: 29of how much sorer punishment, do you{+} think, he will be judged worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified a common thing, and has done despite to the Spirit of grace? 30For we know him who said, Vengeance belongs to me, I will recompense. And again, The Lord will judge his people. 31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. 32But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you{+} were enlightened, you{+} endured a great conflict of sufferings; 33partly, being made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, becoming partners with those who were so used. 34For you{+} both had compassion on those who were in bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your{+} possessions, knowing that you{+} yourselves have a better possession and a staying one. 35Do not cast away therefore your{+} boldness, which has great recompense of reward. 36For you{+} have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, you{+} may receive the promise. 37For yet a very little while, He who comes will come, and will not tarry. 38But my righteous one will live by faith: And if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him. 39But we are not of those who shrink back to perdition; but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.