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1 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.
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Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered year after year, make perfect those who approach.
2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
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Otherwise, would they not have ceased being offered, since the worshipers, cleansed once for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sin?
3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
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But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sin year after year.
4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
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For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
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Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, "Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body you have prepared for me;
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
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in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
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Then I said, "See, God, I have come to do your will, O God' (in the scroll of the book it is written of me)."
8 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;
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When he said above, "You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings" (these are offered according to the law),
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
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then he added, "See, I have come to do your will." He abolishes the first in order to establish the second.
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
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And it is by God's will that we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
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And every priest stands day after day at his service, offering again and again the same sacrifices that can never take away sins.
12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
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But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, "he sat down at the right hand of God,"
13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
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and since then has been waiting "until his enemies would be made a footstool for his feet."
14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
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For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.
15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
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And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,
16 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;
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"This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds,"
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
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he also adds, "I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more."
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
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Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
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Therefore, my friends, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,
20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
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by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain (that is, through his flesh),
21 And having an high priest over the house of God;
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and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
22 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.
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let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
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Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who has promised is faithful.
24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
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And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds,
25 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.
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not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
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For if we willfully persist in sin after having received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
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but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
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Anyone who has violated the law of Moses dies without mercy "on the testimony of two or three witnesses."
29 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?
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How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by those who have spurned the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant by which they were sanctified, and outraged the Spirit of grace?
30 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.
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For we know the one who said, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge his people."
31 It is a fearful 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 call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
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But recall those earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,
33 Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
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sometimes being publicly exposed to abuse and persecution, and sometimes being partners with those so treated.
34 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.
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For you had compassion for those who were in prison, and you cheerfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you yourselves possessed something better and more lasting.
35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
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Do not, therefore, abandon that confidence of yours; it brings a great reward.
36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
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For you need endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.
37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
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For yet "in a very little while, the one who is coming will come and will not delay;
38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
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but my righteous one will live by faith. My soul takes no pleasure in anyone who shrinks back."
39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
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But we are not among those who shrink back and so are lost, but among those who have faith and so are saved.
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