Hebrews 10

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of them, it can never make perfect those who come to worship by the same sacrifices that they offer continually each year.	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 Otherwise, would not the sacrifices have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, once cleansed, would no longer have had any consciousness 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 only a yearly remembrance of sins,	3 But in fact the sins are recal ed year after year in the sacrifices.
4 for it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats take away sins.	4 Bul s' blood and goats' blood are incapable of taking away sins,
5 For this reason, when he came into the world, he said: "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for 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 holocausts and sin offerings you took no delight in.	6 You took no pleasure in burnt offering or sacrifice for sin;
7 Then I said, 'As is written of me in the scroll, Behold, I come to do your 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 First he says, "Sacrifices and offerings, holocausts and sin offerings, you neither desired nor delighted in." These are offered according to 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 he says, "Behold, I come to do your will." He takes away the first to 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 this "will," we have been consecrated 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 Every priest stands daily at his ministry, offering frequently those same sacrifices that 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 one offered one sacrifice for sins, and took his seat forever at 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 now he waits until his enemies are made his footstool.	13 where he is now waiting til his enemies are made his footstool.
14 For by one offering he has made perfect forever those who are being consecrated.	14 By virtue of that one single offering, he has achieved the eternal perfection of al who are sanctified.
15 The holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying:	15 The Holy Spirit attests this to us, for after saying:
16 "This is the covenant I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord: 'I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them upon their minds,'"	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 he also says: "Their sins and their evildoing I will remember no more."	17 and I shal never more call their sins to mind, or their offences.
18 Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer offering for sin.	18 When these have been forgiven, there can be no more sin offerings.
19 Therefore, brothers, since through the blood of Jesus we have confidence of entrance into the sanctuary	19 We have then, brothers, complete confidence through the blood of Jesus in entering the sanctuary,
20 by the new and living way he opened for us through the veil, that is, 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 since we have "a great priest over the house of God,"	21 And we have the high priest over al the sanctuary of God.
22 let us approach with a sincere heart and in absolute trust, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in 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 unwaveringly to our confession that gives us hope, for he who made the promise is trustworthy.	23 Let us keep firm in the hope we profess, because the one who made the promise is trustworthy.
24 We must consider how to rouse one another to love and good works.	24 Let us be concerned for each other, to stir a response in love and good works.
25 We should not stay away from our assembly, as is the custom of some, but encourage one another, and this all the more as you see the day drawing near.	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 If we sin deliberately after receiving knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains 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 fearful prospect of judgment and a flaming fire that is going to consume the adversaries.	27 There is left only the dreadful prospect of judgement and of the fiery wrath that is to devour yourenemies.
28 Anyone who rejects the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the testimony of 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 Do you not think that a much worse punishment is due the one who has contempt for the Son of God, considers unclean the covenant-blood by which he was consecrated, and insults 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 We know the one who said: "Vengeance is mine; I will repay," and again: "The Lord will 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 Remember the days past when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a great contest of suffering.	32 Remember the great chal enge of the sufferings that you had to meet after you received the light, inearlier days;
33 At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and affliction; at other times you associated yourselves with those so treated.	33 sometimes by being yourselves publicly exposed to humiliations and violence, and sometimes asassociates of others who were treated in the same way.
34 You even joined in the sufferings of those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, knowing that you had a better and lasting possession.	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 Therefore, do not throw away your confidence; it will have great recompense.	35 Do not lose your fearlessness now, then, since the reward is so great.
36 You need endurance to do the will of God and receive what he has promised.	36 You wil need perseverance if you are to do God's wil and gain what he has promised.
37 "For, after just a brief moment, he who is to come shall come; he shall not delay.	37 Only a little while now, a very little while, for come he certainly wil before too long.
38 But my just one shall live by faith, and if he draws back I take 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 We are not among those who draw back and perish, but among those who have faith and will possess life.	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.