Hebrifoɔ 10

1 Mmara no yɛ nneɛma pa nsususoɔ a ɛreba, na mmom, ɛnnyɛ nneɛma pa no ankasa. Wɔbɔ afɔdeɛ korɔ no ara afe biara, ɛfiri sɛ saa afɔdeɛ korɔ a wɔbɔ no afeafe rentumi mma nnipa a wɔsom no nnyɛ pɛ da.

The law is just a shadow of the good that was to come, and not the actual reality. So it can never through the repeated sacrifices offered year after year make right those who come to worship God.

2 Sɛ nnipa a wɔresom Onyankopɔn no tumi firi wɔn bɔne mu yɛ pɛ a, ɛnneɛ anka wɔrenni bɔne ho fɔ bio, na ne saa enti, afɔrebɔ nyinaa to bɛtwa.

Otherwise wouldn't the sacrifices have stopped being offered? If the worshipers had been made clean once and for all, they wouldn't have had guilty consciences any longer.

3 Deɛ saa afɔrebɔ yi yɛ ne sɛ, ɛkae wɔn wɔn bɔne afe biara.

But in fact those sacrifices remind people of sins year after year,

4 Anantwie ne mmirekyie mogya rentumi mpepa bɔne.

because it's impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to remove sins.

5 Esiane saa enti, ɛberɛ a Kristo rebɛba ewiase no, ɔka kyerɛɛ Onyankopɔn sɛ: “Wommpɛ afɔrebɔ ne ayɛyɛdeɛ nanso woasiesie ɔhonam ama me.

That's why when Christ came into the world he said, “You didn't want sacrifices or offerings, but you did prepare a body for me.

6 Wʼani nnnye ɔhyeɛ ne bɔne afɔdeɛ anaa afɔdeɛ a wɔbɔ de pepa bɔne ho.

Burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin gave you no pleasure.

7 Afei, mekaa sɛ: ‘Mewɔ ha rebɛyɛ deɛ wopɛ sɛ meyɛ sɛdeɛ wɔatwerɛ afa me ho wɔ Mmara nwoma no mu no.’”

Then I said, ‘God, see I've come to do what you want me to do, just as it says about me in the book.’”

8 Kane no ɔkaa sɛ, “Wompɛ, na wʼani nso nnnye afɔrebɔ ne ayɛyɛdeɛ a wɔde pepa bɔne ho.” Ɛwom, na Mmara no kyerɛ sɛ wɔnyɛ saa.

As mentioned above, “You didn't want sacrifices or offerings, and burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin gave you no pleasure,” (even though they are offered in accordance with the law's requirements).

9 Na ɔkaa sɛ, “Mewɔ ha rebɛyɛ deɛ wopɛ sɛ meyɛ.” Ɛno enti, Onyankopɔn agu tete afɔrebɔ no nyinaa na ɔde Kristo afɔrebɔ no asi ananmu.

Then he said, “See, I've come to do what you want.” He gets rid of the first agreement so he can set up the second,

10 Esiane sɛ Yesu Kristo yɛɛ sɛdeɛ Onyankopɔn hwehwɛ sɛ ɔnyɛ no enti, ɔnam ne honam a ɔde bɔɔ afɔdeɛ prɛko maa yɛn no so ama yɛn ho ate afiri bɔne ho.

through which we all are made holy through Jesus Christ offering his body once and for all time.

11 Ɛda biara Yudani ɔsɔfoɔ sɔre yɛ nʼasɔfodwuma na wabɔ afɔdeɛ mpɛn bebree. Nanso, saa afɔdeɛ yi rentumi mpepa bɔne.

Every priest officiates in the services day after day, again and again offering the same sacrifices that can never remove sins.

12 Kristo deɛ, ɔbɔɔ bɔne ho afɔdeɛ. Afɔdeɛ a ɛtena daa nyinaa. Na ɛno akyi, ɔtenaa Onyankopɔn nifa so.

But this Priest, after he had offered for sins a single sacrifice that lasts forever, sat down at God's right hand.

13 Ɛhɔ na ɔretwɛn seesei kɔsi sɛ Onyankopɔn bɛma nʼatamfoɔ ayɛ ne nan ntiasoɔ.

Now he waits until all his enemies are conquered, becoming like a footstool for him.

14 Ɔnam afɔrebɔ baako so ama nnebɔneyɛfoɔ ho ate daa nyinaa.

For by a single sacrifice he has set right forever those who are being made holy.

15 Na Honhom Kronkron no nso di adanseɛ. Deɛ ɛdi ɛkan no, ɔka sɛ,

As the Holy Spirit also tells us, for having said,

16 “Yei ne apam a me ne wɔn bɛpam wɔ ɛberɛ a ɛreba no mu. Awurade na ɔseɛ: Mede me mmara bɛhyɛ wɔn akoma mu na matwerɛ agu wɔn adwene mu.”

“This is the agreement that I will make with them later on, says the Lord. I will put my laws inside them, and I will write them in their minds.” Then he adds,

17 Na afei waka sɛ, “Merenkae wɔn bɔne ne wɔn amumuyɛ bio.”

“I won't remember their sins and lawlessness anymore.”

18 Sɛ wɔde yeinom nyinaa kyɛ a, na afɔdeɛ a wɔbɔ de pepa bɔne no ho nhia bio.

Once free from such things, sin offerings are no longer needed.

19 Anuanom, ɛsiane Yesu wuo no enti, yɛade yɛn ho koraa sɛ yɛbɛkɔ Kronkronbea hɔ.

Now we have the confidence, brothers and sisters, to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus.

20 Ɔnam ɔno ara ne honam so abue ɛkwan foforɔ a nkwa wɔ mu ama yɛn.

Through his life and death, he opened up a brand-new, living way through the veil to God.

21 Yɛwɔ ɔsɔfoɔ kɛseɛ bi a ɔhwɛ Onyankopɔn fie so.

Since we have such a great priest placed in charge over the house of God,

22 Momma yɛmfa akoma pa ne gyidie a emu yɛ den ntwe mmɛn Onyankopɔn. Ɛfiri sɛ wɔde Yesu mmogya ate yɛn atiboa bɔne ho, na wɔde nsuo a ɛyɛ kronn adware yɛn onipadua ho.

let us come close to God with sincere minds, totally trusting in him. Our minds have been sprinkled to purify them from our evil way of thinking, and our bodies have been washed clean by pure water.

23 Momma yɛnnyina gyidie a yɛasɔ mu no mu denden, ɛfiri sɛ, deɛ ɔhyɛɛ yɛn bɔ no yɛ ɔnokwafoɔ.

So let us hold onto the hope we're telling others about, never hesitating, for God who promised is trustworthy.

24 Momma yɛn ho yɛn ho asɛm nhia yɛn na yɛnnodɔ yɛn ho yɛn ho na yɛnyɛ papa.

Let's think about how we can motivate one another to love and to do what is good.

25 Mommma yɛnnnyae yɛn ho yɛn ho nhyiamu da sɛdeɛ afoforɔ bi yɛ no. Mmom, momma yɛnhyɛ yɛn ho yɛn ho nkuran dendeenden, ɛfiri sɛ, mo ara mohunu sɛ ɛrenkyɛre na ɛda no aba.

We should not give up meeting together, as some have done. In fact we should be encouraging one another, especially as you see the End approaching.

26 Sɛ moboapa kɔ so yɛ bɔne a, afɔrebɔ biara nni hɔ a ɛbɛpepa mo bɔne, ɛfiri sɛ, wɔada nokorɛ no adi akyerɛ yɛn.

For if we deliberately go on sinning after we've understood the truth, there's no longer any sacrifice for sins.

27 Deɛ ɛwɔ hɔ ara ma wɔn a wɔtia Onyankopɔn ne atemmuo ne ogya a ɛbɛba abɛhye wɔn.

All that's left is fear, expecting the impending judgment and the terrible fire that destroys those who are hostile to God.

28 Obiara a ɔbu Mose Mmara no so no, sɛ adansefoɔ baanu anaa baasa adansedie enti, wɔbu atɛn tia no a, wɔbɛkum no a wɔrenhunu no mmɔbɔ.

Someone who rejects the law of Moses is put to death without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses.

29 Na obi a watiatia Onyankopɔn Ba no so, na ɔmmfa Onyankopɔn mogya apam no a ɛgyee no firii bɔne mu no nyɛ hwee anaa deɛ ɔtiatia Honhom a ɔma adom no anim no, ɛdeɛn na ɛbɛto no? Asotwe a onii no bɛnya no nnyɛ adewa.

How much worse do you think someone will deserve their punishment if they have trampled underfoot the Son of God, if they have disregarded the blood that sealed the agreement and makes us holy, treating it as ordinary and trivial, and have abused the Spirit of grace?

30 Yɛnim sɛ Onyankopɔn kaa sɛ, “Me na aweretɔ wɔ me, na me na metua ka,” na ɔno ara na ɔsane kaa sɛ, “Awurade bɛbu ne nkurɔfoɔ atɛn.”

We know God, and he said, “I will make sure that justice is done; I will give people what they deserve.” He also said, “The Lord will judge his people.”

31 Onyankopɔn a ɔte ase no nsam amanenya yɛ hu.

It's terrifying to come under the power of the living God.

32 Monkae ahohia a mokɔɔ mu ɛberɛ a mohunuu hann no, momiaa mo ani hunuu ɔko bebree mu amaneɛ.

Just remember the past when, after you understood the truth, you experienced a great deal of suffering.

33 Ebi ne sɛ, mpɛn bebree wɔyeyɛɛ mo, guu mo anim ase badwam; na ɛtɔ da bi mpo a, na moasiesie mo ho sɛ mobɛka wɔn a wɔrehunu amaneɛ no ho.

Sometimes you were made a spectacle of, being insulted and attacked; at other times you stood in solidarity with those who were suffering.

34 Mo ne nneduafoɔ daa afiase na wɔfaa mo ahodeɛ nyinaa no mpo, monyaa ho boasetɔ, ɛfiri sɛ, monim sɛ ɛyɛ dɛn ara a mowɔ ade pa bi a ɛbɛtena hɔ daa.

You showed your sympathy for those in prison, and took it cheerfully when your possessions were confiscated, knowing that you have something better coming that will truly last.

35 Mommma mo akoma nntu na moanhwere mo akatua.

So don't lose your confidence in God—it will be richly rewarded.

36 Ɛsɛ sɛ moto mo bo ase na moatumi ayɛ Onyankopɔn apɛdeɛ ama mo nsa aka deɛ wɔahyɛ mo ho bɔ no.

You need to be patient so that having done what God wants, you'll receive what he has promised.

37 Ɛfiri sɛ, Atwerɛsɛm no ka sɛ, “Ɛrenkyɛre koraa na deɛ ɛsɛ sɛ ɔba no aba; ɔrentwentwɛn.

“In just a little while he will come, as he said—he won't delay.

38 Na, “Deɛ ɔtene no firi gyidie mu bɛnya nkwa, na sɛ ɔtwe ne ho a, me kra ani rensɔ no.”

Those who do what is right will live by trusting in God, and if they draw back from their commitment, I won't be pleased with them.”

39 Yɛnnyɛ nnipa a yɛsane yɛn akyi na yɛyera. Mmom, yɛwɔ gyidie na wɔagye yɛn nkwa.

But we're not the kind of people who draw back and end up being lost. We are those who trust in God to save us.