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1 For the Torah has in it a shadow of the good things to come, but not the actual manifestation of the originals. Therefore, it can never, by means of the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, bring to the goal those who approach the Holy Place to offer them.
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For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
2 Otherwise, wouldn't the offering of those sacrifices have ceased? For if the people performing the service had been cleansed once and for all, they would no longer have sins on their conscience.
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For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
3 No, it is quite the contrary - in these sacrifices is a reminder of sins, year after year.
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But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
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For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
5 This is why, on coming into the world, he says, "It has not been your will to have an animal sacrifice and a meal offering; rather, you have prepared for me a body.
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Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
6 No, you have not been pleased with burnt offerings and sin offerings.
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In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
7 Then I said, 'Look! In the scroll of the book it is written about me. I have come to do your will.'"
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Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
8 In saying first, "You neither willed nor were pleased with animal sacrifices, meal offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings," things which are offered in accordance with the Torah;
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Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
9 and then, "Look, I have come to do your will"; he takes away the first system in order to set up the second.
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Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
10 It is in connection with this will that we have been separated for God and made holy, once and for all, through the offering of Yeshua the Messiah's body.
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By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 Now every cohen stands every day doing his service, offering over and over the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
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And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
12 But this one, after he had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, sat down at the right hand of God,
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But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
13 from then on to wait until his enemies be made a footstool for his feet.
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From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
14 For by a single offering he has brought to the goal for all time those who are being set apart for God and made holy.
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For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
15 And the Ruach HaKodesh too bears witness to us; for after saying,
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Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
16 " 'This is the covenant which I will make with them after those days,' says ADONAI: 'I will put my Torah on their hearts, and write it on their minds . . . ,' "
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This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17 he then adds, " 'And their sins and their wickednesses I will remember no more.' "
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And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18 Now where there is forgiveness for these, an offering for sins is no longer needed.
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Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
19 So, brothers, we have confidence to use the way into the Holiest Place opened by the blood of Yeshua.
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Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
20 He inaugurated it for us as a new and living way through the parokhet, by means of his flesh.
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By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
21 We also have a great cohen over God's household.
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And having an high priest over the house of God;
22 Therefore, let us approach the Holiest Place with a sincere heart, in the full assurance that comes from trusting - with our hearts sprinkled clean from a bad conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
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Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let us continue holding fast to the hope we acknowledge, without wavering; for the One who made the promise is trustworthy.
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Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
24 And let us keep paying attention to one another, in order to spur each other on to love and good deeds,
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And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
25 not neglecting our own congregational meetings, as some have made a practice of doing, but, rather, encouraging each other. And let us do this all the more as you see the Day approaching.
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Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
26 For if we deliberately continue to sin after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
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For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
27 but only the terrifying prospect of Judgment, of raging fire that will consume the enemies.
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But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 Someone who disregards the Torah of Moshe is put to death without mercy on the word of two or three witnesses.p
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He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Think how much worse will be the punishment deserved by someone who has trampled underfoot the Son of God; who has treated as something common the blood of the covenantq which made him holy; and who has insulted the Spirit, giver of God's grace!
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Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For the One we know is the One who said, "Vengeance is my responsibility; I will repay," and then said, "ADONAI will judge his people."
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For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
31 It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God!
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It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 But remember the earlier days, when, after you had received the light, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings.
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But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
33 Sometimes you were publicly disgraced and persecuted, while at other times you stood loyally by those who were treated this way.
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Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
34 For you shared the sufferings of those who had been put in prison. Also when your possessions were seized, you accepted it gladly; since you knew that what you possessed was better and would last forever.
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For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
35 So don't throw away that courage of yours, which carries with it such a great reward.
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Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
36 For you need to hold out; so that, by having done what God wills, you may receive what he has promised.
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For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
37 For "There is so, so little time! The One coming will indeed come, he will not delay.
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For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
38 But the person who is righteous will live his life by trusting, and if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him."
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Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39 However, we are not the kind who shrink back and are destroyed; on the contrary, we keep trusting and thus preserve our lives!
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But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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