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1 For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things, by the selfsame sacrifices which they offer continually every year, can never 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 they would have ceased to be offered: because the worshippers once cleansed should have no conscience of sin any longer.
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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 them there is made a commemoration 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 impossible that with the blood of oxen and goats sin should be taken away.
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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 oblation thou wouldest not: but a body thou hast fitted to 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;
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in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure.
7 Then said I: Behold I come: in the head of the book it is written of me: that I should 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 In saying before, Sacrifices, and oblations, and holocausts for sin thou wouldest not, neither are they pleasing to thee, which are offered according to 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 I: Behold, I come to do thy will, O God: He taketh away the first, that he may establish that which followeth.
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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 In the which will, we are sanctified by the oblation of the body of Jesus Christ once.
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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 indeed standeth daily ministering and often offering 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, offering one sacrifice for sins, for ever sitteth 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 until 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 oblation 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 And the Holy Ghost also doth testify this to us. For after that he said:
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And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,
16 And this is the testament which I will make unto them after those days, saith the Lord. I will give my laws in their hearts and on 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 I will remember no more.
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he also adds, "I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more."
18 Now, where there is a remission of these, there is no more an oblation for sin.
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Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
19 Having therefore, brethren, a confidence in the entering into the holies by the blood of Christ:
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Therefore, my friends, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,
20 A new and living way which he hath dedicated 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 a 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 fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with clean 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 confession of our hope without wavering (for he is faithful that hath 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 charity 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 our assembly, as some are accustomed: but comforting one anther, and so much the more as you 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 having the knowledge of the truth, there is now left no 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 dreadful expectation of judgment, and the rage of a fire which shall consume the adversaries.
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but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.
28 A man making void the law of Moses dieth without any 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 How much more, do you think he deserveth worse punishments, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God and hath esteemed the blood of the testament unclean, by which he was sanctified, and hath offered an affront to 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 to me, and I will repay. 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 mind the former days, wherein, being illuminated, you 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 And on the one hand indeed, by reproaches and tribulations, were made a gazingstock; and on the other, became companions of them that were used in such sort.
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sometimes being publicly exposed to abuse and persecution, and sometimes being partners with those so treated.
34 For you both had compassion on them that were in bands and took with joy the being stripped of your own goods, knowing that you have a better and a lasting 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 Do not therefore lose your confidence which hath a great reward.
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Do not, therefore, abandon that confidence of yours; it brings a great reward.
36 For patience is necessary for you: that, doing the will of God, you may 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 and a very little while, and he that is to come will come and will not delay.
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For yet "in a very little while, the one who is coming will come and will not delay;
38 But my just man liveth by faith: but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please my soul.
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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 the children of withdrawing unto perdition, but of faith 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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