1 For the law, holding a shadow of the good things to come and not the very image of the things, can never by the same yearly sacrifices, which they offer without end, make perfect those who approach.
2 Would they not otherwise have stopped being offered, since the worshipers, once cleansed, would have had no conscience of sins anymore?
3 But in them there is a remembering of sins year by year;
4 for the blood of bulls and goats is powerless to take away sins.
5 Therefore, as he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and offering you did not wish, but a body you made ready for me;
6 You took no delight in burnt offerings and offerings for sin.
7 Then I said, 'See, I come—in the heading of the book it is written of me—to do your will, O God.'"
8 Having said above, "Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offerings for sin you neither wanted nor took pleasure in"—the very things offered under the law—
9 he then has said, "See, I come to do your will, O God." He removes the first so as to set up the second.
10 It is by this will that we have been sanctified, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 Every priest, moreover, stands ministering daily and repeatedly bringing the same sacrifices, which never have power to strip away sins.
12 But Christ offered one sacrifice for sins for all time and then sat down at God's right hand,
13 where from now on he waits until his enemies are placed as a footstool under his feet.
14 For with a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
15 The Holy Spirit is also our witness; for after having said beforehand,
16 "This is the covenant I will covenant with them after those days, says the Lord: putting my laws upon their hearts, I will also write them on their minds,"
17 he says, "And their sins and their lawless acts I will not remember any longer."
18 Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
19 Having, then, brothers, boldness to go into the holies by the blood of Jesus,
20 by the way he dedicated for us, newly made and living, through the veil, that is, his flesh,
21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
22 let us approach with a true heart in fullness of faith, our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies bathed in pure water.
23 Let us keep the confession of our hope steady and unbending, for faithful is the one who promised.
24 And let us pay attention to one another, to provoke love and good works,
25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the way of some, but exhorting, and so much the more as you see the Day drawing near.
26 For if we sin willingly after receiving the full knowledge of the truth, there is no sacrifice for sins remaining,
27 but a fearful kind of waiting for judgment and a fury of fire that is about to devour the adversaries.
28 A man who disregarded the law of Moses dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.
29 Of how much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy who has trodden down the Son of God, has counted common the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know the one who said, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will pay back, says the Lord," and again, "The Lord will judge his people."
31 It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 But recall the former days in which, after being enlightened, you endured a great fight of sufferings,
33 on the one hand being made a spectacle through reproaches and afflictions, and on the other becoming companions of those who were living through such things.
34 For you had compassion on me in my chains, and you took the plundering of your goods with joy, knowing that you have in yourselves a better possession in heaven, and one that abides.
35 Do not, then, cast away your boldness, which holds a great reward.
36 For you have need of endurance, so that after doing the will of God you may carry off the promise.
37 "For yet a very little while, and the coming one will come and will not be slow.
38 But the just shall live by faith; and if he shrinks back, my soul takes no pleasure in him."
39 But we are not of the drawing back that leads to ruin, but of the faith that leads to the preserving of the soul.