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,

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 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? Because the worshippers having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sin.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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, “Behold, I come to do, O God, Your 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 in 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, indeed, has daily stood serving, and offering the same sacrifices many times, that are never able to 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 sin—to the end, sat down at the right hand of God—

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Since, then, we have a cheerful confidence, brothers, to enter into the Holiest 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 the way which he dedicated for us, that new and living way, through the veil (that is, his flesh);

21 and a Great Priest over the house of God,

and since we have a great High 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 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 may we hold fast the unwavering profession of the hope (for He who promised [is] faithful),

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

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

and let us consider one another, to provoke unto 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 together, as is the custom of some, but exhorting one another; all the more as you behold the Day drawing near.

26 For [if] we are sinning willingly after receiving the full knowledge of the truth—there remains no more 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 looking for of judgment, and fiery zeal, about to devour the opposers;

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

28 anyone having set aside a law of Moses dies without mercies on the basis 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 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?

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 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 mine, 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 FEARFUL 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;

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

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

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 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.

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

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

36 for you have need of patience, that having done the will of God, you 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 [in] a very, very little [while], He who is coming will come, and will not linger,”

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

38 but, “The righteous will live by faith; and if he may draw back, My soul has no 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 of those drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul.

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