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.
02 For then would they not have ceased to be
offered? because that the worshippers once purged
should have had no more conscience of sins.
03 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance
again made of sins every year.
04 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls
and of goats should take away sins.
05 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he
saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not,
but a body hast thou prepared me:
06 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou
hast had no pleasure.
07 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the
book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
08 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;
09 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O
God. He taketh away the first, that he may
establish the second.
10 By the which will we are 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:
12 But this man, after he had offered one
sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the
right hand of God;
13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be
made his footstool.
14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever
them that are sanctified.
15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to
us: for after that he had said before,
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;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember
no more.
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no
more offering for sin.
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter
into the holiest 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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21 And having an high 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.
23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith
without wavering; (for he is faithful that
promised;)
24 And let us consider one another to provoke
unto love and to good works:
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.
26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have
received the knowledge of the truth, there
remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment
and fiery indignation, which shall devour the
adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy
under 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?
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.
31 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;
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.
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.
35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which
hath great recompence of reward.
36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye
have done the will of God, ye might receive the
promise.
37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come
will come, and will not tarry.
38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any
man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in
him.
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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