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Christ's Sacrifice Once for All

For the law, having a shadow of the coming good things, not the image itself of the things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually yearly, perfect those who approach.

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Animal Sacrifices Insufficient

For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect.

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Since, would they not indeed have ceased being offered, on account of the worshippers once purged having no longer any conscience of sins?

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For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once [a]purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins.

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But in these [there is] a calling to mind of sins yearly.

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But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.

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For blood of bulls and goats [is] incapable of taking away sins.

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For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.

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Wherefore coming into the world he says, Sacrifice and offering thou willedst not; but thou hast prepared me a body.

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Christ’s Death Fulfills God’s Will

Therefore, when He came into the world, He said:
“Sacrifice and offering You did not desire,
But a body You have prepared for Me.

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Thou tookest no pleasure in burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin.

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In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin
You had no pleasure.

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Then I said, Lo, I come (in [the] roll of the book it is written of me) to do, O God, thy will.

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Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come —
In the volume of the book it is written of Me —
To do Your will, O God.’ ”

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Above, saying Sacrifices and offerings and burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou willedst not, neither tookest pleasure in (which are offered according to the law);

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Previously saying, “Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the law),

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then he said, Lo, I come to do thy will. He takes away the first that he may establish the second;

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then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, [b]O God.” He takes away the first that He may establish the second.

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

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By that will we have been [c]sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

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And every priest stands daily ministering, and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

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Christ’s Death Perfects the Sanctified

And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

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But *he*, having offered one sacrifice for sins, sat down in perpetuity at [the] right hand of God,

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But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God,

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waiting from henceforth until his enemies be set [for the] footstool of his feet.

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from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool.

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For by one offering he has perfected in perpetuity the sanctified.

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For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being [d]sanctified.

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And the Holy Spirit also bears us witness [of it]; for after what was said:

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But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before,

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This [is] the covenant which I will establish towards them after those days, saith [the] Lord: Giving my laws into their hearts, I will write them also in their understandings;

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“This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,”

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and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more.

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then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”

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But where there [is] remission of these, [there is] no longer a sacrifice for sin.

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Now where there is [e]remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.

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A Call to Persevere

Having therefore, brethren, boldness for entering into the [holy of] holies by the blood of Jesus,

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Hold Fast Your Confession

Therefore, brethren, having boldness[f] to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,

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the new and living way which he has dedicated for us through the veil, that is, his flesh,

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by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh,

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and [having] a great priest over the house of God,

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and having a High Priest over the house of God,

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let us approach with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, sprinkled as to our hearts from a wicked conscience, and washed as to our body with pure water.

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

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Let us hold fast the confession of the hope unwavering, (for he [is] faithful who has promised;)

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Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

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and let us consider one another for provoking to love and good works;

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And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works,

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not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the custom [is] with some; but encouraging [one another], and by so much the more as ye see the day drawing near.

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not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

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For where we sin wilfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains any sacrifice for sins,

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The Just Live by Faith

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

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but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and heat of fire about to devour the adversaries.

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but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.

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Any one that has disregarded Moses' law dies without mercy on [the testimony of] two or three witnesses:

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Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

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of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and esteemed the blood of the covenant, whereby he has been sanctified, common, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

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Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?

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For we know him that said, To me [belongs] vengeance; *I* will recompense, saith the Lord: and again, The Lord shall judge his people.

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For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” [g]says the Lord. And again, “The Lord will judge His people.”

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[It is] a fearful thing falling into [the] hands of [the] living God.

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It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

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But call to mind the earlier days in which, having been enlightened, ye endured much conflict of sufferings;

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But recall the former days in which, after you were [h]illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings:

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on the one hand, when ye were made a spectacle both in reproaches and afflictions; and on the other, when ye became partakers with those who were passing through them.

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partly while you were made a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while you became companions of those who were so treated;

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For ye both sympathised with prisoners and accepted with joy the plunder of your goods, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better substance, and an abiding one.

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for you had compassion on [i]me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your [j]goods, knowing that you have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves [k]in heaven.

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Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense.

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Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward.

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For ye have need of endurance in order that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

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For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:

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For yet a very little while he that comes will come, and will not delay.

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“For yet a little while,
And He[l] who is coming will come and will not [m]tarry.

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But the just shall live by faith; and, if he draw back, my soul does not take pleasure in him.

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Now the[n] just shall live by faith;
But if anyone draws back,
My soul has no pleasure in him.”

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But *we* are not drawers back to perdition, but of faith to saving [the] soul.

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But we are not of those who draw back to [o]perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.

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