10:1  For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near.

10:2  Otherwise, would they not have ceased to offer them, because the worshipers, having once undergone cleansing, would no longer have had consciousness of sins?

10:3  But in those sacrifices a reminder of sins exists year by year.

10:4  For it proves impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

10:5  Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says, "SACRIFICE AND OFFERING YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, BUT A BODY YOU HAVE PREPARED FOR ME;

10:6  IN WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND SACRIFICES FOR SIN YOU HAVE TAKEN NO PLEASURE.

10:7  "THEN I SAID, 'BEHOLD, I HAVE COME (IN THE SCROLL OF THE BOOK IT SAYS OF ME) TO DO YOUR WILL, O GOD.'"

10:8  After saying above, "SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS AND WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, NOR HAVE YOU TAKEN PLEASURE in them" (which are offered according to the Law),

10:9  then He said, "BEHOLD, I HAVE COME TO DO YOUR WILL." He takes away the first in order to establish the second.

10:10  By this will we have received sanctification through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

10:11  Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;

10:12  but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD,

10:13  waiting from that time onward UNTIL HIS ENEMIES BECOME A FOOTSTOOL FOR HIS FEET.

10:14  For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who receive sanctification.

10:15  And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying,

10:16  "THIS DESIGNATES THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THEM AFTER THOSE DAYS, SAYS THE LORD: I WILL PUT MY LAWS UPON THEIR HEART, AND ON THEIR MIND I WILL WRITE THEM," He then says,

10:17  "AND THEIR SINS AND THEIR LAWLESS DEEDS I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE."

10:18  Now where no forgiveness of these things exists, there can no longer exist any offering for sin.

10:19  Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus,

10:20  by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, namely, His flesh,

10:21  and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

10:22  let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

10:23  Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised demonstrates faithfulness;

10:24  and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds,

10:25  not forsaking our own assembling together, as has become the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.

10:26  For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

10:27  but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES.

10:28  Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

10:29  How much severe punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he received sanctification, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

10:30  For we know Him who said, "VENGEANCE BELONGS TO ME, I WILL REPAY "And again, "THE LORD WILL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE."

10:31  It proves a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

10:32  But remember the former days, when, after receiving enlightenment, you endured a great conflict of sufferings,

10:33  partly by serving as a public spectacle through reproaches and tribulations, and partly by becoming sharers with those who received the same treatment.

10:34  For you showed sympathy to the prisoners and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and a lasting one.

10:35  Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

10:36  For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what He had promised you.

10:37  FOR YET IN A VERY LITTLE WHILE, HE WHO COMES WILL COME, AND WILL NOT DELAY.

10:38  BUT MY RIGHTEOUS ONE SHALL LIVE BY FAITH; AND IF HE SHRINKS BACK, MY SOUL HAS NO PLEASURE IN HIM.

10:39  But we do not shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul.