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law is only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the actual form of those realities itself. For this reason, it can never make perfect those who approach to worship, with those same sacrifices they continually offer year after year. 2 Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshippers, once purified, would no longer has any consciousness of sins. 3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. 4 For it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said:
“Sacrifice and offering You did not desire,
but a body You have prepared for me.
6 In burnt offerings and sin offerings
You have taken no pleasure.
7 Then I said, ‘See, I have come
—it is written about Me in the volume of the scroll—
I have come to do your will, O God’.”
8 First He said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not desire, nor did You take pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the law), 9 then He said, “See, I have come to do Your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second. 10 By this will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all.
11 Day after day every priest stands ministering and repeatedly offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God. 13 Since that time He has been waiting until His enemies are made His footstool, 14 for by one offering He has made perfect forever those who are being sanctified.
15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. For after He had said,
16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them
after those days, says the Lord:
I will put My laws in their hearts,
and I will write them on their minds.”
17 Then He adds:
“Their sins and lawless deeds
I will remember no more.”
18 And where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.
19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus, 20 by the new and living way that He has opened for us through the curtain, that is, His flesh, 21 and since we have a great high priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near to God with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold on unswervingly to the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may encourage one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not neglecting to meet together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
26 For if we keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. 28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by someone who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, regarded as unholy the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know the One who said, “Vengeance is Mine to take; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge His people.” 31 It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 Remember those earlier days when, after you had been enlightened. You endured a great struggle in the face of suffering. 33 Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insults and persecution, and at other times your companions were also treated that way. 34 You sympathised with those who were in prison, and you cheerfully accepted with joy the confiscation of your property, knowing that you have a better and enduring possession.
35 So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. 36 For you need endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what was promised.
37 “For in yet a little while, He who is coming will come
and will not delay.
38But My righteous one will live by faith.
But if he shrinks back,
My soul will have no pleasure in him.”
39 But we are not of those who draw back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and so are saved.