¶For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually in perpetuity, make perfect those who draw near.

Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins.

For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says,

“Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire,

but you prepared a body for me;

¶Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in them” (those which are offered according to the law),

then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,

by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,

but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever in perpetuity, sat down on the right hand of God;

from that time waiting^[a] until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.^[b]

For by one offering he has perfected forever in perpetuity those who are being sanctified.

The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,

“This is the covenant that I will make with them:

‘After those days,’ says the Lord,

‘I will put my laws on their heart,

I will also write them on their mind;’” [Jer. 38(31):33]^*

¶then he says,

¶Now where remission forgiveness of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the entrance^[a] of the holy place Holies by the blood of Jesus,^[b]

by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

and having a great priest over the house of God,

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness conviction of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

¶Let us consider how to provoke be mindful^[a] of one another to (and incite within ourselves)^[b] an outburst^[c] of love and good works,

not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the custom of some is, but exhorting encouraging one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.

How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?