10:1 For* the law, having a shadow of the future good things, (not the same image of the matters), they are never* able to complete those who come near with the same continual sacrifices which they are offering every year.
10:2 Otherwise, why would they not have ceased being offered? Because those who are giving-divine service to God, once having been cleansed, would then have a conscience of sins no more.
10:3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance of sins every year.
10:4 For* it is impossible that the blood of oxen and male-goats should take away sins.
10:5 Hence while entering into the world, he says, 'You did not wish for sacrifice and offering, but you, yourself, completed a body for me.
10:6 You were not delighted in whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices concerning sin.
10:7 Then I said, (as it has been written concerning me in the volume of the book), Behold, I am coming to do your will, O God. ' {Psa 40:6-8}
10:8 After saying this above, You did not wish, nor were you delighted in sacrifice and offering and whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices concerning sin, (which are offered according to the law),
10:9 then he has said, 'Behold, I am coming to do your will, O God. ' {Psa 40:6-8} He assassinates {Or: takes away permanently.}
the first covenant *, in order that he should establish the second covenant *,
10:10 in which will, we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
10:11 And indeed every priest stands every day ministering* and often offering the same sacrifices, which are never* able to take away sins. {Exo 29:38}
10:12 But having offered one continual sacrifice on behalf of sins, he sat down at the right hand of God;
10:13 furthermore waiting until his enemies should be placed under the footstool of his feet.
10:14 For* he has completed in one continual offering those who are made holy.
10:15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for* after he has said beforehand,
10:16 This is the covenant* that I will covenant* for them after those days, says the Lord, I will be giving my laws upon their hearts and I will write them upon their minds. '
10:17 And 'I may never* remember their sins and their lawlessness anymore. ' {Jer 31:33-34}
10:18 Now where the forgiveness of these is, there is no more an offering concerning sin.
10:19 Therefore brethren, having boldness *for the entrance into the holy-places by the blood of Jesus,
10:20 a way which he inaugurated for us, a fresh and living way, through the curtain, that is, his flesh;
10:21 and having a great priest over the house of God;
10:22 let us come near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts having been sprinkled away from an evil conscience and our body, having been fully-washed in clean {Or: cleansing} water.
10:23 We should hold-onto the confession of our hope?????? unwavering; for* he who promised is faithful.
10:24 And we should consider one another *for motivating each other from love* and from good works;
10:25 not forsaking our own gathering-together, just-as the custom is with some, but encouraging one another, and so-much more, inasmuch as you* are seeing the day drawing near.
10:26 For* when we sin willfully after the receiving of the full knowledge of the truth, then a sacrifice is left no more for us concerning sins,
10:27 but a certain fearful expectancy of judgment and a zeal of fire which is about to eat the adversaries.
10:28 Anyone, having rejected the Law of Moses, dies without mercy upon the word of two or three witnesses. {Deu 17:6}
10:29 How much worse punishment, do you* think he will be deemed worthy of, after having trampled under foot the Son of God, and having deemed the blood of the covenant* in which he was made holy as common, and having insulted the Spirit of grace?
10:30 For* we know the one who said, 'Vengeance is for me. I will be repaying says the Lord. ' And again, ' The Lord will judge his people. ' {Deu 32:35-36, Psa 135:14}
10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
10:32 But remind* yourselves of the former days, when you* were enlightened, in which you* endured a large conflict of sufferings;
10:33 in this thing indeed, makes you* a spectacle both by reproaches and afflictions, but in this thing, you became partners of those who conducted themselves so.
10:34 For* you* also sympathized together with me in my bonds, and you* accepted the ravening of your* possessions with joy, knowing that you* have for yourselves a better possession in the heavens and an abiding one.
10:35 Therefore do* not cast away your* boldness, which has great reward.
10:36 For* you* have need of endurance, in order that, having done the will of God, you* may get the promise for yourselves.
10:37 For* still a little while, O how-much? O how-much? He who is coming will be coming and will not delay.
10:38 But my righteous one will be living from faith and if he retreats back, my soul does not delight in him. ' {Isa 26:20, Hab. 2:3-4}
10:39 But we are not from this retreating back leading to destruction, but we are from the faith leading to the preservation of the soul.