Hebrews 10

1 For the law, having a shadow of the coming good things, not the image itself of the things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually yearly, perfect those who approach.

For the Law, being only a shadow of the good things to come, and not their very substance, its priests cannot with the same sacrifice which year after year they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

2 Since, would they not indeed have ceased being offered, on account of the worshippers once purged having no longer any conscience of sins?

Otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshippers having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sin.

3 But in these [there is] a calling to mind of sins yearly.

But on the other hand, in these sacrifices sins are called to memory, year after year.

4 For blood of bulls and goats [is] incapable of taking away sins.

For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin.

5 Wherefore coming into the world he says, Sacrifice and offering thou willedst not; but thou hast prepared me a body.

It is for this reason that the Christ, on coming into the world, declared. Sacrifice and offerings thou dost not desire, But a body didst thou prepare for me;

6 Thou tookest no pleasure in burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin.

In whole burnt offerings and sin offerings Thou hast taken no pleasure.

7 Then I said, Lo, I come (in [the] roll of the book it is written of me) to do, O God, thy will.

Then I said, "I am come - in the roll of the book it is written of me- -To do thy will, O God."

8 Above, saying Sacrifices and offerings and burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou willedst not, neither tookest pleasure in (which are offered according to the law);

First when it is said, Thou hast no longing for, thou takest no delight in Sacrifices and offerings, or whole burnt offerings and sin offerings,

9 then he said, Lo, I come to do thy will. He takes away the first that he may establish the second;

(offerings regularly made under the law), and then it is added, Lo, I come to do thy will, he does away with the first, in order that he may establish the second.

10 by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

And it is by this will that we have been sanctified by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

11 And every priest stands daily ministering, and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

For while every priest stands, day after day, at his ministrations, and many times repeats the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,

12 But he, having offered one sacrifice for sins, sat down in perpetuity at [the] right hand of God,

this Priest, after offering one Sacrifice for sins, sat down forever on God’s right hand;

13 waiting from henceforth until his enemies be set [for the] footstool of his feet.

henceforth waiting until his enemies be put as the footstool of his feet.

14 For by one offering he has perfected in perpetuity the sanctified.

For by one single offering he has perfected forever those whom he is sanctifying.

15 And the Holy Spirit also bears us witness [of it]; for after what was said:

And the Holy Spirit also gives his testimony, when he said.

16 This [is] the covenant which I will establish towards them after those days, saith [the] Lord: Giving my laws into their hearts, I will write them also in their understandings;

"This is the covenant I will make with them After those days," says the Lord. "I will set my laws upon their hearts, And I will inscribe them on their minds."

17 and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more.

Then he adds, And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

18 But where there [is] remission of these, [there is] no longer a sacrifice for sin.

But when these have been remitted, there is no more any offering for sin.

19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness for entering into the [holy of] holies by the blood of Jesus,

Since, then, we have a cheerful confidence, brothers, to enter into the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,

20 the new and living way which he has dedicated for us through the veil, that is, his flesh,

by the way which he dedicated for us, that new and living way, through the veil (that is, his flesh);

21 and [having] a great priest over the house of God,

and since we have a great High Priest over the house of God;

22 let us approach with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, sprinkled as to our hearts from a wicked conscience, and washed as to our body with pure water.

let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled from and evil conscience, and our bodies bathed in pure water.

23 Let us hold fast the confession of the hope unwavering, (for he [is] faithful who has promised; )

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope, unwavering (for He is faithful who promised);

24 and let us consider one another for provoking to love and good works;

and let us consider one another, to provoke unto love and good works;

25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the custom [is] with some; but encouraging [one another], and by so much the more as ye see the day drawing near.

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the custom of some, but exhorting one another; all the more as you behold the Day drawing near.

26 For where we sin wilfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains any sacrifice for sins,

For if we sin wilfully, after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains any other sacrifice for sins,

27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and heat of fire about to devour the adversaries.

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fiery indignation which is about to devour the adversaries.

28 Any one that has disregarded Moses' law dies without mercy on [the testimony of] two or three witnesses:

Any one who set at naught the law of Moses was put to death without pity, on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

29 of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and esteemed the blood of the covenant, whereby he has been sanctified, common, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

How much surer, think you, will be the punishment of one who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has profaned that covenant blood with which he was sanctified, and has done despite to the spirit of grace?

30 For we know him that said, To me [belongs] vengeance; I will recompense, saith the Lord: and again, The Lord shall judge his people.

For we know Him who said, Vengeance is mine, I will repay, and again, The Lord will judge his people.

31 [It is] a fearful thing falling into [the] hands of [the] living God.

IT IS A FEARFUL THING TO FALL INTO THE HANDS OF THE LIVING GOD!

32 But call to mind the earlier days in which, having been enlightened, ye endured much conflict of sufferings;

But ever call to mind the former days, in which, after having been enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings;

33 on the one hand, when ye were made a spectacle both in reproaches and afflictions; and on the other, when ye became partakers with those who were passing through them.

partly by being made a public spectacle in reproaches and afflictions, and partly by sharing the fortunes of those that were so used.

34 For ye both sympathised with prisoners and accepted with joy the plunder of your goods, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better substance, and an abiding one.

For you did sympathize with the prisoners, and you did take joyfully the confiscation of your goods; conscious that you had for yourselves greater, even lasting possessions.

35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense.

Now do not fling away your bold confidence, for it has a great recompense of reward.

36 For ye have need of endurance in order that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

For you need stedfastness, so that after having done the will of God, you may receive the promise,

37 For yet a very little while he that comes will come, and will not delay.

For yet a very, very little while, and then The Coming One will have come, without delay.

38 But the just shall live by faith; and, if he draw back, my soul does not take pleasure in him.

But it is by faith that my Righteous One will live, And if he draws back, my soul takes no pleasure in him.

39 But we are not drawers back to perdition, but of faith to saving [the] soul.

"But we are not of defections unto perdition, but of faith unto the gaining of the soul."