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Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All
For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.
For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.
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.
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.
Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?
Since, would they not indeed have ceased being offered, on account of the worshippers once purged having no longer any conscience of sins?
But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.
But in these [there is] a calling to mind of sins yearly.
For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
For blood of bulls and goats [is] incapable of taking away sins.
Wherefore coming into the world he says, Sacrifice and offering thou willedst not; but thou hast prepared me a body.
in burnt offerings and sin offerings
you have taken no pleasure.
you have taken no pleasure.
Thou tookest no pleasure in burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin.
Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,
as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”
as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”
Then I said, Lo, I come (in [the] roll of the book it is written of me) to do, O God, thy will.
When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law),
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);
then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second.
then he said, Lo, I come to do thy will. He takes away the first that he may establish the second;
And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
And every priest stands daily ministering, and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
But *he*, having offered one sacrifice for sins, sat down in perpetuity at [the] right hand of God,
waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet.
waiting from henceforth until his enemies be set [for the] footstool of his feet.
For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
For by one offering he has perfected in perpetuity the sanctified.
And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,
And the Holy Spirit also bears us witness [of it]; for after what was said:
“This is the covenant that I will make with them
after those days, declares the Lord:
I will put my laws on their hearts,
and write them on their minds,”
after those days, declares the Lord:
I will put my laws on their hearts,
and write them on their minds,”
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;
then he adds,
“I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”
“I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”
and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more.
Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
But where there [is] remission of these, [there is] no longer a sacrifice for sin.
A Call to Persevere
Having therefore, brethren, boldness for entering into the [holy of] holies by the blood of Jesus,
Having therefore, brethren, boldness for entering into the [holy of] holies by the blood of Jesus,
by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,
the new and living way which he has dedicated for us through the veil, that is, his flesh,
and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
and [having] a great priest over the house of God,
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
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.
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.
Let us hold fast the confession of the hope unwavering, (for he [is] faithful who has promised;)
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,
and let us consider one another for provoking to love and good works;
not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
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.
For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
For where we sin wilfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains any sacrifice for sins,
but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.
but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and heat of fire about to devour the adversaries.
Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses.
Any one that has disregarded Moses' law dies without mercy on [the testimony of] two or three witnesses:
How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?
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?
For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.”
For we know him that said, To me [belongs] vengeance; *I* will recompense, saith the Lord: and again, The Lord shall judge his people.
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
[It is] a fearful thing falling into [the] hands of [the] living God.
But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,
But call to mind the earlier days in which, having been enlightened, ye endured much conflict of sufferings;
sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated.
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.
For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.
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.
Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense.
For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.
For ye have need of endurance in order that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.
For,
“Yet a little while,
and the coming one will come and will not delay;
“Yet a little while,
and the coming one will come and will not delay;
For yet a very little while he that comes will come, and will not delay.
but my righteous one shall live by faith,
and if he shrinks back,
my soul has no pleasure in him.”
and if he shrinks back,
my soul has no pleasure in him.”
But the just shall live by faith; and, if he draw back, my soul does not take pleasure in him.