1Since the law only possesses a shadow of the good to come not the deeper reality of things, it can never make perfect those who draw near with the same sacrifices they offer continuously year after year.
2Otherwise, wouldn’t they have stopped being offered, because the worshipers would have been cleansed once and for all and would no longer be conscious of sins?
3But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins.
4For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5Therefore when he comes into the world, he says,
“sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
but a body you prepared for me.
6You were not pleased with burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.
7Then I said, ‘Here I am, (it is written about me at the head of the scroll)
I have come to do your will, O God.’”
8Above he first says, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them” (though they were offered in accordance with the law).
9Next he says, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first in order to establish the second.
10And by this will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11Indeed, every priest stands day after day, serving and offering the same sacrifices over and over, which can never take away sins.
12But when this priest had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, he sat down on the right hand of God,
13where he remains waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.
14For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
15The Holy Spirit also testifies to us. For after saying,
16“This is the covenant that I will make with them
after those days,” says the Lord,
“I will put my laws upon their heart,
I will also write them on their mind.”
17Then he adds,
“Their sins and their lawless deeds
I will remember no more.”
18Now where these things have been forgiven, there is no more offering for sin.
Persevere in Godliness19Therefore siblings, since we have confidence to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
20by a new and living way that he inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, his flesh,
21and since we have a great priest over God’s house,
22let’s draw near with a sincere heart in the full assurance that comes from faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and having our body washed with pure water.
23Let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.
24And let’s consider how to spur one another toward love and excellent works,
25not forsaking our own meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another all the more as y’all see the Day approaching.
A Warning for Deliberate Sin26For if we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no more sacrifice for sins remains,
27but only a fearful expectation of judgment and a zealous fire which will consume the adversaries.
28A man who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
29How much more severe a punishment do y’all think someone deserves who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, and has treated as unclean the blood of the covenant through which he was sanctified, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?
30For we know ʜɪᴍ who said, “Vengeance belongs to me. I will repay.”
39But we are not among those who shrink back to destruction, but among those who have faith that preserves the soul.
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