9:1 Now the first covenant, 1 in fact, had regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary.
10:1 For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship. 2 10:2 For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once for all and so have 3 no further consciousness of sin? 10:3 But in those sacrifices 4 there is a reminder of sins year after year. 10:4 For the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sins. 5 10:5 So when he came into the world, he said,
“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.
10:6 “Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no delight in.
10:7 “Then I said, ‘Here I am: 6 I have come – it is written of me in the scroll of the book – to do your will, O God.’” 7
10:8 When he says above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them” 8 (which are offered according to the law), 10:9 then he says, “Here I am: I have come to do your will.” 9 He does away with 10 the first to establish the second. 10:10 By his will 11 we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 10:11 And every priest stands day after day 12 serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again – sacrifices that can never take away sins. 10:12 But when this priest 13 had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right hand 14 of God, 10:13 where he is now waiting 15 until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet. 16 10:14 For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy. 10:15 And the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us, for after saying, 17 10:16 “This is the covenant that I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord. I will put 18 my laws on their hearts and I will inscribe them on their minds,” 19 10:17 then he says, 20 “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no longer.” 21 10:18 Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
10:19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, 22 since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, 10:20 by the fresh and living way that he inaugurated for us 23 through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, 24 10:21 and since we have a great priest 25 over the house of God, 10:22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings, 26 because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience 27 and our bodies washed in pure water. 10:23 And let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we confess, for the one who made the promise is trustworthy. 10:24 And let us take thought of how to spur one another on to love and good works, 28 10:25 not abandoning our own meetings, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and even more so because you see the day 29 drawing near. 30
10:26 For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us, 31 10:27 but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury 32 of fire that will consume God’s enemies. 33 10:28 Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death 34 without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 35 10:29 How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for 36 the Son of God, and profanes 37 the blood of the covenant that made him holy, 38 and insults the Spirit of grace? 10:30 For we know the one who said, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” 39 and again, “The Lord will judge his people.” 40 10:31 It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
10:32 But remember the former days when you endured a harsh conflict of suffering after you were enlightened. 10:33 At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and afflictions, and at other times you came to share with others who were treated in that way. 10:34 For in fact you shared the sufferings of those in prison, 41 and you accepted the confiscation of your belongings with joy, because you knew that you certainly 42 had a better and lasting possession. 10:35 So do not throw away your confidence, because it 43 has great reward. 10:36 For you need endurance in order to do God’s will and so receive what is promised. 44 10:37 For just a little longer 45 and he who is coming will arrive and not delay. 46 10:38 But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, I 47 take no pleasure in him. 48 10:39 But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their souls. 49
1:1 After God spoke long ago 50 in various portions 51 and in various ways 52 to our ancestors 53 through the prophets, 1:2 in these last days he has spoken to us in a son, 54 whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he created the world. 55 1:3 The Son is 56 the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, and he sustains all things by his powerful word, 57 and so when he had accomplished cleansing for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high. 58 1:4 Thus he became 59 so far better than the angels as 60 he has inherited a name superior to theirs.
1:5 For to which of the angels did God 61 ever say, “You are my son! Today I have fathered you”? 62 And in another place 63 he says, 64 “I will be his father and he will be my son.” 65 1:6 But when he again brings 66 his firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him!” 67 1:7 And he says 68 of the angels, “He makes 69 his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire,” 70 1:8 but of 71 the Son he says, 72
“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, 73
and a righteous scepter 74 is the scepter of your kingdom.
1:9 You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness.
So God, your God, has anointed you over your companions 75 with the oil of rejoicing.” 76
1:10 And,
“You founded the earth in the beginning, Lord, 77
and the heavens are the works of your hands.
1:11 They will perish, but you continue.
And they will all grow old like a garment,
1:12 and like a robe you will fold them up
and like a garment 78 they will be changed,
but you are the same and your years will never run out.” 79
1:13 But to which of the angels 80 has he ever said, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”? 81 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to serve those 82 who will inherit salvation?