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 gazing stock 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.