For the law, having a shadow of the coming good things, not the image itself of the things, can never by the same sacrifices, which they offer yearly continuously, perfect those that approach.
Since would they not have ceased being offered on account of the worshippers once purified having no longer any conscience of sins?
But in these [is] a calling to mind of sins yearly.
For blood of bulls and goats [is] incapable of taking away sins.
Wherefore entering into the world he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou willedst not, but a body thou preparedst for me:
in whole burnt-offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hadst no pleasure.
Then I said, Lo, I am come (in the book-roll it is written of me) to do thy will, O God.
Above saying, Sacrifice and offering and whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou willedst not nor hadst pleasure in (the which are offered according to the law),
then he hath said, Lo, I am come to do thy will. He taketh away the first that he may establish the second;
by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
And every priest indeed standeth daily ministering and offering often the same sacrifices, the which can never take away sins;
but he having offered one sacrifice for sins, continuously sat down on God’s right hand,
henceforth waiting until his enemies be set as footstool of his feet.
For by one offering he hath perfected continuously the sanctified.
And the Holy Spirit also witnesseth to us; for after he had said,
This [is] the covenant which I will covenant unto them after those days, saith Jehovah, Giving my laws on their hearts, I will also write them on their understanding;
and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember more.
But where remission of these [is] [there is] no longer an offering for sin.
Having therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holies by the blood of Jesus,
a new and living way which he inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, his flesh,
and [having] a great priest over the house of God,
let us approach with true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from a wicked conscience, and our body washed with pure water.
Let us hold fast the confession of the hope unwavering, for [he is] faithful that promised;
and let us consider one another for provoking love and good works,
not forsaking the gathering of ourselves together as [is] a custom for some, but encouraging, and by so much rather as ye see the day drawing near.
For if we sin wilfully after receiving the full knowledge of the truth, there no longer remaineth a sacrifice for sins,
but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and heat of fire about to devour the adversaries.
Anyone if he set at nought Moses’ law dieth apart from mercy on two or three witnesses:
of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy that trod down the Son of God, and counted common the blood of the covenant whereby he was sanctified, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
For we know him that said, To me [is] vengeance; I will recompense, saith Jehovah; and again, Jehovah shall judge his people.
Fearful [it is] to fall into a living God’s hands.
But call to mind the former days, in which enlightened as ye were ye endured a great fight of afflictions,
on this side made a spectacle in both reproaches and afflictions, and on that become companions of those so used;
for ye both sympathised with prisoners and accepted with joy the plunder of your goods, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better and abiding substance.
Cast not away therefore your confidence, the which hath great recompense.
For ye have need of endurance, that having done the will of God ye may receive the promise.
For yet a very little while: he that cometh will have come and will not delay.
But the just shall live by faith; and if he draw back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.
But we are not of drawing back unto perdition but of faith unto soul-saving.