1For the law having a shadow of good things to come , and not the very image of the things , can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect . 2For then would they not have ceased to be offered ? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins . 3But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year . 4For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins . 5Wherefore when he cometh into the world , he saith , Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not , but a body hast thou prepared me : 6In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure . 7Then said I , Lo , I come ( in the volume of the book it is written of me ,) to do thy will , O God . 8Above when he said , Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not , neither hadst pleasure therein ; which are offered by the law ; 9Then said he , Lo , I come to do thy will , O God . He taketh away the first , that he may establish the second . 10By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all . 11And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices , which can never take away sins : 12But this man , after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever , sat down on the right hand of God ; 13From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool . 14For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified . 15Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us : for after that he had said before , 16This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days , saith the Lord , I will put my laws into their hearts , and in their minds will I write them ; 17And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more . 18Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin .
A Call to Persevere in Faith
19Having therefore , brethren , boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus , 20By a new and living way , which he hath consecrated for us , through the veil , that is to say , his flesh ; 21And having an high priest over the house of God ; 22Let 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 . 23Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering ; ( for he is faithful that promised ;) 24And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works : 25Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together , as the manner of some is ; but exhorting one another : and so much the more , as ye see the day approaching .
Warning Against Apostasy
26For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth , there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins , 27But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation , which shall devour the adversaries . 28He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses : 29Of how much sorer punishment , suppose ye , shall he be thought worthy , who hath trodden under foot the Son of God , and hath counted the blood of the covenant , where with he was sanctified , an unholy thing , and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace ? 30For we know him that hath said , Vengeance belongeth unto me , I will recompense , saith the Lord . And again , The Lord shall judge his people . 31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God .
The Just Shall Live by Faith
32But call to remembrance the former days , in which , after ye were illuminated , ye endured a great fight of afflictions ; 33Partly , whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions ; and partly , whilst ye became companions of them that were so used . 34For ye had compassion of me in my bonds , and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods , knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance . 35Cast not away therefore your confidence , which hath great recompence of reward . 36For ye have need of patience , that , after ye have done the will of God , ye might receive the promise . 37For yet a little while , and he that shall come will come , and will not tarry . 38Now the just shall live by faith : but if any man draw back , my soul shall have no pleasure in him . 39But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition ; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul .