8:1And the sum concerning the things spoken of is: we have such a chief priest, who did sit down at the right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens,

8:2of the holy places a servant, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord did set up, and not man,

8:3for every chief priest to offer both gifts and sacrifices is appointed, whence it is necessary for this one to have also something that he may offer;

8:4for if, indeed, he were upon earth, he would not be a priest -- (there being the priests who are offering according to the law, the gifts,

8:5who unto an example and shadow do serve of the heavenly things, as Moses hath been divinely warned, being about to construct the tabernacle, for `See (saith He) thou mayest make all things according to the pattern that was shewn to thee in the mount;') --

8:6and now he hath obtained a more excellent service, how much also of a better covenant is he mediator, which on better promises hath been sanctioned,

8:7for if that first were faultless, a place would not have been sought for a second.

8:8For finding fault, He saith to them, `Lo, days come, saith the Lord, and I will complete with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, a new covenant,

8:9not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day of My taking them by their hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt -- because they did not remain in My covenant, and I did not regard them, saith the Lord, --

8:10because this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws into their mind, and upon their hearts I will write them, and I will be to them for a God, and they shall be to Me for a people;

8:11and they shall not teach each his neighbour, and each his brother, saying, Know thou the Lord, because they shall all know Me from the small one of them unto the great one of them,

8:12because I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will remember no more;' --

8:13in the saying `new,' He hath made the first old, and what doth become obsolete and is old is nigh disappearing.

9:1It had, indeed, then (even the first tabernacle) ordinances of service, also a worldly sanctuary,

9:2for a tabernacle was prepared, the first, in which was both the lamp-stand, and the table, and the bread of the presence -- which is called `Holy;'

9:3and after the second vail a tabernacle that is called `Holy of holies,'

9:4having a golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid all round about with gold, in which is the golden pot having the manna, and the rod of Aaron that budded, and the tables of the covenant,

9:5and over it cherubim of the glory, overshadowing the mercy-seat, concerning which we are not now to speak particularly.

9:6And these things having been thus prepared, into the first tabernacle, indeed, at all times the priests do go in, performing the services,

9:7and into the second, once in the year, only the chief priest, not apart from blood, which he doth offer for himself and the errors of the people,

9:8the Holy Spirit this evidencing that not yet hath been manifested the way of the holy places, the first tabernacle having yet a standing;

9:9which is a simile in regard to the present time, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, which are not able, in regard to conscience, to make perfect him who is serving,

9:10only in victuals, and drinks, and different baptisms, and fleshly ordinances -- till the time of reformation imposed upon them.

9:11And Christ being come, chief priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands -- that is, not of this creation --

9:12neither through blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, did enter in once into the holy places, age-during redemption having obtained;

9:13for if the blood of bulls, and goats, and ashes of an heifer, sprinkling those defiled, doth sanctify to the purifying of the flesh,

9:14how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

9:15And because of this, of a new covenant he is mediator, that, death having come, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those called may receive the promise of the age-during inheritance,

9:16for where a covenant is, the death of the covenant-victim to come in is necessary,

9:17for a covenant over dead victims is stedfast, since it is no force at all when the covenant-victim liveth,

9:18whence not even the first apart from blood hath been initiated,

9:19for every command having been spoken, according to law, by Moses, to all the people, having taken the blood of the calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, he both the book itself and all the people did sprinkle,

9:20saying, `This is the blood of the covenant that God enjoined unto you,'

9:21and both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the service with blood in like manner he did sprinkle,

9:22and with blood almost all things are purified according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding forgiveness doth not come.

9:23It is necessary, therefore, the pattern indeed of the things in the heavens to be purified with these, and the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these;

9:24for not into holy places made with hands did the Christ enter -- figures of the true -- but into the heaven itself, now to be manifested in the presence of God for us;

9:25nor that he may many times offer himself, even as the chief priest doth enter into the holy places every year with blood of others;

9:26since it had behoved him many times to suffer from the foundation of the world, but now once, at the full end of the ages, for putting away of sin through his sacrifice, he hath been manifested;

9:27and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this -- judgment,

9:28so also the Christ, once having been offered to bear the sins of many, a second time, apart from a sin-offering, shall appear, to those waiting for him -- to salvation!

10:1For the law having a shadow of the coming good things -- not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near,

10:2since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified?

10:3but in those sacrifices is a remembrance of sins every year,

10:4for it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

10:5Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, `Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not will, and a body Thou didst prepare for me,

10:6in burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offerings, Thou didst not delight,

10:7then I said, Lo, I come, (in a volume of the book it hath been written concerning me,) to do, O God, Thy will;'

10:8saying above -- `Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offering Thou didst not will, nor delight in,' -- which according to the law are offered --

10:9then he said, `Lo, I come to do, O God, Thy will;' he doth take away the first that the second he may establish;

10:10in the which will we are having been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once,

10:11and every priest, indeed, hath stood daily serving, and the same sacrifices many times offering, that are never able to take away sins.

10:12And He, for sin one sacrifice having offered -- to the end, did sit down on the right hand of God, --

10:13as to the rest, expecting till He may place his enemies as his footstool,

10:14for by one offering he hath perfected to the end those sanctified;

10:15and testify to us also doth the Holy Spirit, for after that He hath said before,

10:16`This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws on their hearts, and upon their minds I will write them,'

10:17and `their sins and their lawlessness I will remember no more;'

10:18and where forgiveness of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

10:19Having, therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holy places, in the blood of Jesus,

10:20which way he did initiate for us -- new and living, through the vail, that is, his flesh --

10:21and a high priest over the house of God,

10:22may we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed with pure water;

10:23may we hold fast the unwavering profession of the hope, (for faithful is He who did promise),

10:24and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,

10:25not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain is, but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.

10:26For we -- willfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth -- no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice,

10:27but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery zeal, about to devour the opposers;

10:28any one who did set at nought a law of Moses, apart from mercies, by two or three witnesses, doth die,

10:29of how much sorer punishment shall he be counted worthy who the Son of God did trample on, and the blood of the covenant did count a common thing, in which he was sanctified, and to the Spirit of the grace did despite?

10:30for we have known Him who is saying, `Vengeance is Mine, I will recompense, saith the Lord;' and again, `The Lord shall judge His people;' --

10:31fearful is the falling into the hands of a living God.

10:32And call to your remembrance the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye did endure much conflict of sufferings,

10:33partly both with reproaches and tribulations being made spectacles, and partly having become partners of those so living,

10:34for also with my bonds ye sympathised, and the robbery of your goods with joy ye did receive, knowing that ye have in yourselves a better substance in the heavens, and an enduring one.

10:35Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward,

10:36for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise,

10:37for yet a very very little, He who is coming will come, and will not tarry;

10:38and `the righteous by faith shall live,' and `if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,'

10:39and we are not of those drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul.