Hebrews 10

1 For the Law having a shadow of the good things coming—not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near,

You see, the Law is but a shadow of the good things to come, not their actual matter, so it can never perfect those who approach with the same sacrifices that they offer endlessly, year after year.

2 since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having been purified once?

Otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have had no more consciousness of sins, having been cleansed once for all?

3 But in those [sacrifices] is a remembrance of sins every year,

However, those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins,

4 for it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

5 For this reason, coming into the world, He says, “Sacrifice and offering You did not will, and a body You prepared for Me;

Therefore, upon coming into the world He[S] says: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but You prepared a body for me;

6 in burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offerings, You did not delight.

with burnt offerings and sin offerings You were not pleased.

7 Then I said, Behold, I come (in a volume of the scroll it has been written concerning Me), to do, O God, Your will”;

Then I said, ‘Yes indeed, I have come to do Your will, O God —thus it is written about me in the scroll of the book.’”

8 saying above, “Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offering You did not will, nor delight in” (which are offered according to the Law),

First He says, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not desire, nor were You pleased with them” (which are offered according to the Law),

9 then He said, “Behold, I come to do, O God, Your will”; He takes away the first that He may establish the second;

then He says, “Yes indeed, I have come to do Your will, O God.” He removes the first in order to establish the second.

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

By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

11 and every priest, indeed, has daily stood serving, and offering the same sacrifices many times, that are never able to take away sins.

Now every priest has stood ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices that can never take away sins;

12 But He, having offered one sacrifice for sin—to the end, sat down at the right hand of God—

but He Himself, having offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, sat down at God's right.

13 as to the rest, expecting until He may place His enemies [as] His footstool,

Since that time He is waiting until His enemies are placed as a footstool for His feet,

14 for by one offering He has perfected to the end those being sanctified;

because by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

15 and the Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after that He has said before,

Now the Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this, after having foreseen it:

16 “This [is] the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD, giving My laws on their hearts, and I will write them on their minds,”

“‘This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their hearts and I will write them on their minds,

17 and, “I will remember their sins and their lawlessness no more”;

and I will not at all remember their sins and lawless deeds.’”

18 and where [there is] forgiveness of these, there is no longer offering for sin.

Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.

19 Having, therefore, brothers, boldness for the entrance into the holy places, by the blood of Jesus,

Therefore, brothers, having courage to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,

20 which [is] the way He initiated for us—new and living, through the veil, that is, His flesh—

by a new and living way that He inaugurated for us, through the curtain, that is to say, His flesh,

21 and a Great Priest over the house of God,

and having a Great Priest over the house of God,

22 may we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed with pure water;

let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts having been sprinkled from an evil conscience and our body having been washed with clean water.

23 may we hold fast the unwavering profession of the hope (for He who promised [is] faithful),

Let us hold fast the confession of the Hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

24 and may we consider to provoke one another to love and to good works,

And let us contemplate one another, for the stirring up of love and good works,

25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as [is] a custom of some, but exhorting, and so much the more as you see the Day coming near.

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves (like some are doing), but exhorting one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

26 For [if] we are sinning willingly after receiving the full knowledge of the truth—there remains no more sacrifice for sins,

Because, if we deliberately keep on sinning after having received the real knowledge of the Truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

27 but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery zeal, about to devour the opposers;

just a certain fearful anticipation of judgment and fierce fire that is ready to consume the hostiles.

28 anyone having set aside a law of Moses dies without mercies on the basis of two or three witnesses.

Anyone who rejected Moses' law died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

29 Of how much worse punishment will he be counted worthy who trampled on the Son of God, and counted the blood of the covenant a common thing, by which he was sanctified, and having insulted the Spirit of grace?

Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be deemed worthy who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has regarded as unholy the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?

30 For we have known Him who is saying, “Vengeance [is] Mine, I will repay, says the LORD”; and again, “The LORD will judge His people.”

For we know Him who said, “‘Vengeance is up to me,’ says the Lord, ‘I will repay.’” And again, “The Lord will judge His people.”

31 [It is] fearful to fall into [the] hands of [the] living God.

It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God!

32 But call to your remembrance the former days, in which, having been enlightened, you endured much conflict of sufferings;

However, remember those earlier days in which, having been enlightened, you endured a great struggle of sufferings:

33 this indeed, being made spectacles with both insults and afflictions, now this, having become partners of those so living,

partly being publicly exposed to both insults and oppression, and partly siding with those who were so treated.

34 for you also sympathized with my bonds, and the robbery of your goods you received with joy, knowing that you have in yourselves a better substance in the heavens, and an enduring one.

Indeed, you also shared in the suffering of my chains; you even accepted the plundering of your possessions with joy, knowing that you have for yourselves a better and enduring possession in the heavens.

35 You may not cast away, then, your boldness, which has great repayment of reward,

So do not throw away your confidence, which has a great recompense.

36 for you have need of patience, that having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

You need perseverance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

37 “For yet [in] a very, very little [while], He who is coming will come, and will not linger,”

For in a very little while: “He who is coming will come and will not delay.

38 but, “The righteous will live by faith; and if he may draw back, My soul has no pleasure in him.”

Now the righteous one will live by faith, yet if he backs away, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

39 But we are not of those drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul.

But we are not of those who back away into ruin, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.