1For the law, being only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never by those sacrifices, which are offered year by year, continually, make perfect those who draw near. 2Otherwise, would they not have ceased being offered? because the worshippers, once cleansed, would no longer have had a consciousness of sins. 3But those sacrifices are a reminder of sins every year. 4For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. 5Therefore, when he came into the world, he said, Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you have prepared for me; 6In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have had no pleasure. 7Then I said, Lo, I come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me,) to do your will, O God. 8After he said above, Sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and offerings for sin you did not desire, neither did you have pleasure in them, which are offered according to the law; 9Then said he, Lo, I come to do your will, O God. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second. 10And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11Every priest stands daily ministering and offering, time and again, 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 hand of God; 13From that time on waiting until his enemies are made his footstool. 14For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are sanctified. 15And the Holy Spirit also is a witness to us: for after he said, 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; 17Then he adds, Their sins and iniquities I will remember no more. 18Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer an offering for sin. 19Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the most holy place by the blood of Jesus, 20By a new and living way which he has opened for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21And since we have 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 clean from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. 23Let us hold fast the profession of our hope, without wavering; (for he who promised is faithful;) 24And let us consider how to arouse one another to love and to good works: 25Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching. 26For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins, 27But a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. 28He who despised Moses' law died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses: 29How much more severe punishment do you suppose he shall deserve, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, with which he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has affronted the Spirit of grace? 30For we know him who has said, Vengeance belongs to me, I will repay. And again, The Lord shall 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 illuminated, you endured a great struggle in the face of afflictions; 33Sometimes you were made a public spectacle by insults and afflictions; and sometimes, because you became companions to those who were so treated. 34For you had compassion on the prisoners, and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your goods, knowing that you have a better possession, and an enduring one. 35Therefore, do not cast away your confidence, which has a great reward. 36For you have need of endurance, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise. 37For yet a little while longer, and he who shall come will come, and will not tarry. 38But my righteous one shall live by faith: but if any man draws back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. 39But we are not of those who draw back to destruction; but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.