1For the law having the shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices, which they offer year by year continually, sanctify the comers thereunto.
2For would they not then have ceased to have been offered, because that the offerers once purged, should have had no more conscience of sins?
3But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again of sins every year.
4For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
5Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not: but a body hast thou ordained me.
6In burnt offerings, and sin offerings thou hast had no pleasure.
7Then I said, Lo, I come (in the beginning of the book it is written of me) that I should do thy will, O God.
8Above, when he said, Sacrifice and offering, and burnt offerings, and sin offerings, thou wouldest not have, neither hadst pleasure therein (which are offered by the Law.)
9Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God, he taketh away the first, that he may stablish the second.
10By the which will we are sanctified, even by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once made.
11And every Priest standeth daily ministering, and ofttimes offereth one manner of offering, which can never take away sins:
12But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, sitteth forever at the right hand of God,
13And from henceforth tarrieth, till his enemies be made his footstool.
14For with one offering hath he consecrated forever them that are sanctified.
15For the holy Ghost also beareth us record: for after that he had said before,
16This is the Testament that I will make unto them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my Laws in their heart, and in their minds I will write them.
17And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18Now where remission of these things is, there is no more offering for sin.
19Seeing therefore, brethren, that by the blood of Jesus we may be bold to enter into the Holy place,
20By the new and living way, which he hath prepared for us, through the veil, that is, his flesh:
21And seeing we have an high Priest, which is over the house of God,
22Let us draw near with a true heart in assurance of faith, our hearts being pure from an evil conscience,
23And washed in our bodies with pure water, let us keep the profession of our hope, without wavering, (for he is faithful that promised.)
24And let us consider one another, to provoke unto love, and to good works,
25Not forsaking the fellowship that we have among ourselves, as the manner of some is: but let us exhort one another, and that so much the more, because ye see that the day draweth near.
26For if we sin willingly after that we have received and acknowledged that truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
27But a fearful looking for of judgment, and violent fire, which shall devour the adversaries.
28He that despiseth Moses’ Law, dieth without mercy under two, or three witnesses:
29Of how much sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be worthy, which treadeth under foot the Son of God, and counteth the blood of the Testament as an unholy thing, wherewith he was sanctified, and doeth despite the Spirit of grace?
30For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me: I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32Now call to remembrance the days that are passed, in the which, after ye had received light ye endured a great fight in afflictions,
33Partly while ye were made a gazing stock both by reproaches and afflictions, and partly while ye became companions of them which were so tossed to and fro.
34For both ye sorrowed with me for my bonds, and suffered with joy the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves how that ye have in heaven a better, and an enduring substance.
35Cast not away therefore your confidence which hath great recompense of reward.
36For ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
37For yet a very little while, and he that shall come, will come, and will not tarry.
38Now the just shall live by faith: but if any withdraw himself, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39But we are not they which withdraw ourselves unto perdition, but follow faith unto the conservation of the soul.