Hebrews, 10

1. So, since the Law contains no more than a reflection of the good things which were still to come, and no true image of them, it is quite incapable of bringing the worshippers to perfection, by means of the same sacrifices repeatedly offered year after year.

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.

2. Otherwise, surely the offering of them would have stopped, because the worshippers, when they had been purified once, would have no awareness of sins.

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.

3. But in fact the sins are recalled year after year in the sacrifices.

3. But in those [sacrifices there is] a remembrance again [made] of sins every year.

4. Bulls' blood and goats' blood are incapable of taking away sins,

4. For [it is] not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

5. and that is why he said, on coming into the world: You wanted no sacrifice or cereal offering, but you gave me a body.

5. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

6. You took no pleasure in burnt offering or sacrifice for sin;

6. In burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

7. then I said, 'Here I am, I am coming,' in the scroll of the book it is written of me, to do your will, God.

7. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

8. He says first You did not want what the Law lays down as the things to be offered, that is: the sacrifices, the cereal offerings, the burnt offerings and the sacrifices for sin, and you took no pleasure in them;

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;

9. and then he says: Here I am! I am coming to do your will. He is abolishing the first sort to establish the second.

9. Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

10. And this will was for us to be made holy by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ made once and for all.

10. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once [for all].

11. Every priest stands at his duties every day, offering over and over again the same sacrifices which are quite incapable of taking away sins.

11. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

12. He, on the other hand, has offered one single sacrifice for sins, and then taken his seat for ever, at the right hand of God,

12. But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

13. where he is now waiting till his enemies are made his footstool.

13. From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

14. By virtue of that one single offering, he has achieved the eternal perfection of all who are sanctified.

14. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

15. The Holy Spirit attests this to us, for after saying:

15. [Whereof] the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,

16. No, this is the covenant I will make with them, when those days have come. the Lord says: In their minds I will plant my Laws writing them on their hearts,

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 I shall never more call their sins to mind, or their offences.

17. And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

18. When these have been forgiven, there can be no more sin offerings.

18. Now where remission of these [is, there is] no more offering for sin.

19. We have then, brothers, complete confidence through the blood of Jesus in entering the sanctuary,

19. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,

20. by a new way which he has opened for us, a living opening through the curtain, that is to say, his flesh.

20. By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

21. And we have the high priest over all the sanctuary of God.

21. And [having] an high priest over the house of God;

22. So as we go in, let us be sincere in heart and filled with faith, our hearts sprinkled and free from any trace of bad conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

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 keep firm in the hope we profess, because the one who made the promise is trustworthy.

23. Let us hold fast the profession of [our] faith without wavering; (for he [is] faithful that promised;)

24. Let us be concerned for each other, to stir a response in love and good works.

24. And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

25. Do not absent yourself from your own assemblies, as some do, but encourage each other; the more so as you see the Day drawing near.

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. If, after we have been given knowledge of the truth, we should deliberately commit any sins, then there is no longer any sacrifice for them.

26. For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

27. There is left only the dreadful prospect of judgement and of the fiery wrath that is to devour your enemies.

27. But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

28. Anyone who disregards the Law of Moses is ruthlessly put to death on the word of two witnesses or three;

28. He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

29. and you may be sure that anyone who tramples on the Son of God, and who treats the blood of the covenant which sanctified him as if it were not holy, and who insults the Spirit of grace, will be condemned to a far severer punishment.

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. We are all aware who it was that said: Vengeance is mine; I will pay them back. And again: The Lord will vindicate his people.

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 dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

31. [It is] a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

32. Remember the great challenge of the sufferings that you had to meet after you received the light, in earlier days;

32. But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

33. sometimes by being yourselves publicly exposed to humiliations and violence, and sometimes as associates of others who were treated in the same way.

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 you not only shared in the sufferings of those who were in prison, but you accepted with joy being stripped of your belongings, knowing that you owned something that was better and lasting.

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. Do not lose your fearlessness now, then, since the reward is so great.

35. Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

36. You will need perseverance if you are to do God's will and gain what he has promised.

36. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

37. Only a little while now, a very little while, for come he certainly will before too long.

37. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.

38. My upright person will live through faith but if he draws back, my soul will take no pleasure in him.

38. Now the just shall live by faith: but if [any man] draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

39. We are not the sort of people who draw back, and are lost by it; we are the sort who keep faith until our souls are saved.

39. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.