¹For seeing that the law has a shadow of the good things to come, but not the image itself of the things, they can never – with the same sacrifices which they offer every year perpetually – perfect those who draw near. ²For in that case, would they not have stopped being offered, because the ministers would not have any consciousness of sins any more, having been purified that one time? ³But by those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. ⁴For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to remove sins, ⁵which is why, on coming into the world, he says, ⁸Having said above, – which are offered according to the law – ⁹he then said, So he removes the first in order to establish the second. ¹⁰And by this will we have been sanctified, we who are so through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all. ¹¹Also, every priest stands every day ministering and repeatedly offering the same sacrifices, which can never remove sins, ¹²but he offered one sacrifice for sins and sat down at the right hand of God uninterruptedly, ¹³from then on waiting until his enemies are made his footstool. ¹⁴For by one offering he has made those who are being sanctified perfect perpetually. ¹⁵And the holy spirit also witnesses to us, for this is after saying beforehand, ¹⁶“This is the covenant which I will make with them after those days”, says the Lord: “I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them in their minds, ¹⁷and I will no longer remember their sins and their lawless deeds at all.” ¹⁸Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer offering for sin. ¹⁹So, brothers, considering we have confidence to enter into the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰through an entrance which he inaugurated for us as a fresh and living way, through the veil, that is, through his flesh, ²¹and considering we have a great priest over the house of God, ²²let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having been sprinkled in respect of the heart from a guilty conscience and washed as regards the body in pure water. ²³Let us hold on to the confession of our hope unwaveringly, for he who promised is faithful. ²⁴And let us take notice of one another as a stimulus to love and good works, ²⁵not abandoning our own episynagogue gathering, as is the custom of some, but encouraging each other, and all the more so as you see the day approaching. ²⁶For if we deliberately sin after receiving knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, ²⁷but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a zealous fire which is about to devour those who are in opposition. ²⁸Anyone who lays aside the law of Moses on the testimony of two or three witnesses dies without mercy. ²⁹Of how much worse punishment do you think he who tramples on the son of God will be considered worthy, and who considers profane the blood of the covenant in which he was sanctified, and who insults the spirit of grace? ³⁰For we know him who has said, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay”, says the Lord, and again, “The Lord will judge his people.” ³¹It is a fearful matter to fall into the hands of the living God. ³²But remember the former days, in which you were enlightened and endured a great struggle full of sufferings. ³³Sometimes you were made a gazing stock with reproaches and afflictions, whereas at other times you made common cause with those who had that mode of life. ³⁴For indeed you sympathized with my bonds, and you accepted the confiscation of your property with joy, knowing that you have for yourselves better and permanent property in the heavens. ³⁵So do not discard your confidence, which has a great reward. ³⁶For you need patience, in order that when you have done the will of God, you receive the promise. ³⁷For in just a very little while he who is to come will come and will not delay. ³⁸And the righteous shall live by faith, but if he draws back, my being shall not be pleased with him. ³⁹But we are not ones to draw back leading to loss, but we are of faith, leading to the preservation of one's being.

Reference(s) in Chapter 10: v.5 ↔ Psalm 40:7^MT (Psalm 40:6^AV) ● v.6 ↔ Psalm 40:7^MT (Psalm 40:6^AV) ● v.7 ↔ Psalm 40:8^MT (Psalm 40:7^AV) ● v.8 ↔ Psalm 40:7^MT (Psalm 40:6^AV) ● v.9 ↔ Psalm 40:8^MT (Psalm 40:7^AV), Psalm 40:9^MT (Psalm 40:8^AV) ● v.16 ↔ Jeremiah 31:33 ● v.17 ↔ Jeremiah 31:34 ● v.30 ↔ Deuteronomy 32:35, Deuteronomy 32:36 ● v.37 ↔ Daniel 7:13, Haggai 2:7, Habakkuk 2:3 ● v.38 ↔ Habakkuk 2:4.