Animal Sacrifices Insufficient

10 For the law, having a ^(A)shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, ^(B)can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. ² For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once ^[a]purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. ³ But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. ⁴ For ^(C)it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.

Christ’s Death Fulfills God’s Will^(D)

⁵ Therefore, when He came into the world, He said:

⁸ 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), ⁹ 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. ^10 (F)By that will we have been ^[c]sanctified ^(G)through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Christ’s Death Perfects the Sanctified

¹¹ And every priest stands ^(H)ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. ^12 (I)But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down ^(J)at the right hand of God, ¹³ from that time waiting ^(K)till His enemies are made His footstool. ¹⁴ For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being ^[d]sanctified.

¹⁵ But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before,

^16 (L)“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,” ¹⁷ then He adds, ^(M)“Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” ¹⁸ Now where there is ^[e]remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.

Hold Fast Your Confession

¹⁹ Therefore, brethren, having ^(N)boldness^[f] to enter ^(O)the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ by a new and ^(P)living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, ²¹ and having a High Priest over the house of God, ²² let us ^(Q)draw near with a true heart ^(R)in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. ²³ Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for ^(S)He who promised is faithful. ²⁴ And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, ^25 (T)not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and ^(U)so much the more as you see ^(V)the Day approaching.

The Just Live by Faith

²⁶ For ^(W)if we sin willfully ^(X)after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there ^(Y)no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and ^(Z)fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. ²⁸ Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three ^(AA)witnesses. ^29 (AB)Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, ^(AC)counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, ^(AD)and insulted the Spirit of grace? ³⁰ For we know Him who said, ^(AE)“Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” ^[g]says the Lord. And again, ^(AF)“The Lord will judge His people.” ^31 (AG)It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

³² But ^(AH)recall the former days in which, after you were ^[h]illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings: ³³ partly while you were made ^(AI)a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while ^(AJ)you became companions of those who were so treated; ³⁴ for you had compassion on ^[i]me ^(AK)in my chains, and ^(AL)joyfully accepted the plundering of your ^[j]goods, knowing that ^(AM)you have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves ^[k]in heaven. ³⁵ Therefore do not cast away your confidence, ^(AN)which has great reward. ^36 (AO)For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, ^(AP)you may receive the promise:

³⁹ But we are not of those ^(AT)who draw back to ^[o]perdition, but of those who ^(AU)believe to the saving of the soul.