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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the reality itself of those things, it can never perfect the worshipers by the same sacrifices they continually offer year after year. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Otherwise, wouldn't they have stopped being offered, since the worshipers, purified once and for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3But in the sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Therefore, as he was coming into the world, he said: You did not desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6You did not delight in whole burnt offerings and sin offerings. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Then I said, "See--it is written about me in the scroll--I have come to do your will, O God." |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8After he says above, You did not desire or delight in sacrifices and offerings, whole burnt offerings and sin offerings (which are offered according to the law), |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9he then says, See, I have come to do your will. He takes away the first to establish the second. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10By this will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Every priest stands day after day ministering and offering the same sacrifices time after time, which can never take away sins. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12But this man, after offering one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13He is now waiting until his enemies are made his footstool. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are sanctified. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. For after he says: |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, the Lord says, I will put my laws on their hearts and write them on their minds, |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17and I will never again remember their sins and their lawless acts. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer an offering for sin. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have boldness to enter the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus-- |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20he has inaugurated for us a new and living way through the curtain (that is, through his flesh)-- |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21and since we have a great high priest over the house of God, |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22let 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 in pure water. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Let us hold on to the confession of our hope without wavering, since he who promised is faithful. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24And let us watch out for one another to provoke love and good works, |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25not neglecting to gather together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day approaching. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26For if we deliberately go on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire about to consume the adversaries. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Anyone who disregarded the law of Moses died without mercy, based on the testimony of two or three witnesses. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29How much worse punishment do you think one will deserve who has trampled on the Son of God, who has regarded as profane the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30For we know the one who has said, Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, and again, The Lord will judge his people. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Remember the earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Sometimes you were publicly exposed to taunts and afflictions, and at other times you were companions of those who were treated that way. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34For you sympathized with the prisoners and accepted with joy the confiscation of your possessions, because you know that you yourselves have a better and enduring possession. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35So don't throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36For you need endurance, so that after you have done God's will, you may receive what was promised. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37For yet in a very little while, the Coming One will come and not delay. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38But my righteous one will live by faith; and if he draws back, I have no pleasure in him. |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39But we are not those who draw back and are destroyed, but those who have faith and are saved. |
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