Hebrews 10

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 For 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.	1 So, since the Law contains no more than a reflection of the good things which were stil to come, andno true image of them, it is quite incapable of bringing the worshippers to perfection, by means of the samesacrifices repeatedly offered year after year.
2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.	2 Otherwise, surely the offering of them would have stopped, because the worshippers, when they hadbeen purified once, would have no awareness of sins.
3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.	3 But in fact the sins are recal ed year after year in the sacrifices.
4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.	4 Bul s' blood and goats' blood are incapable of taking away sins,
5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:	5 and that is why he said, on coming into the world: You wanted no sacrifice or cereal offering, but yougave me a body.
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.	6 You took no pleasure in burnt offering or sacrifice for sin;
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.	7 then I said, 'Here I am, I am coming,' in the scrol of the book it is written of me, to do your wil , God.
8 Above 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;	8 He says first You did not want what the Law lays down as the things to be offered, that is: thesacrifices, the cereal offerings, the burnt offerings and the sacrifices for sin, and you took no pleasure in them;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.	9 and then he says: Here I am! I am coming to do your wil . He is abolishing the first sort to establish thesecond.
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.	10 And this will was for us to be made holy by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ made once andfor all.
11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:	11 Every priest stands at his duties every day, offering over and over again the same sacrifices whichare quite incapable of taking away sins.
12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;	12 He, on the other hand, has offered one single sacrifice for sins, and then taken his seat for ever, atthe right hand of God,
13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.	13 where he is now waiting til his enemies are made his footstool.
14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.	14 By virtue of that one single offering, he has achieved the eternal perfection of al who are sanctified.
15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,	15 The Holy Spirit attests this to us, for after saying:
16 This 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;	16 No, this is the covenant I wil make with them, when those days have come. the Lord says: In theirminds I wil plant my Laws writing them on their hearts,
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.	17 and I shal never more call their sins to mind, or their offences.
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.	18 When these have been forgiven, there can be no more sin offerings.
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,	19 We have then, brothers, complete confidence through the blood of Jesus in entering the sanctuary,
20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;	20 by a new way which he has opened for us, a living opening through the curtain, that is to say, hisflesh.
21 And having an high priest over the house of God;	21 And we have the high priest over al the sanctuary of God.
22 Let 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.	22 So as we go in, let us be sincere in heart and fil ed with faith, our hearts sprinkled and free from anytrace of bad conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)	23 Let us keep firm in the hope we profess, because the one who made the promise is trustworthy.
24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:	24 Let us be concerned for each other, to stir a response in love and good works.
25 Not 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.	25 Do not absent yourself from your own assemblies, as some do, but encourage each other; the moreso as you see the Day drawing near.
26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,	26 If, after we have been given knowledge of the truth, we should deliberately commit any sins, thenthere is no longer any sacrifice for them.
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.	27 There is left only the dreadful prospect of judgement and of the fiery wrath that is to devour yourenemies.
28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:	28 Anyone who disregards the Law of Moses is ruthlessly put to death on the word of two witnesses orthree;
29 Of 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, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?	29 and you may be sure that anyone who tramples on the Son of God, and who treats the blood of thecovenant which sanctified him as if it were not holy, and who insults the Spirit of grace, will be condemned to afar severer punishment.
30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.	30 We are al aware who it was that said: Vengeance is mine; I wil pay them back. And again: The Lordwil vindicate his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.	31 It is a dreadful thing to fal into the hands of the living God.
32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;	32 Remember the great chal enge of the sufferings that you had to meet after you received the light, inearlier days;
33 Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.	33 sometimes by being yourselves publicly exposed to humiliations and violence, and sometimes asassociates of others who were treated in the same way.
34 For 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.	34 For you not only shared in the sufferings of those who were in prison, but you accepted with joybeing stripped of your belongings, knowing that you owned something that was better and lasting.
35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.	35 Do not lose your fearlessness now, then, since the reward is so great.
36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.	36 You wil need perseverance if you are to do God's wil and gain what he has promised.
37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.	37 Only a little while now, a very little while, for come he certainly wil before too long.
38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.	38 My upright person will live through faith but if he draws back, my soul wil take no pleasure in him.
39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.	39 We are not the sort of people who draw back, and are lost by it; we are the sort who keep faith untilour souls are saved.