Hebrews 10

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
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.	1 For the law having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things; by the selfsame sacrifices which they offer continually every year, can never make the comers thereunto perfect:
2 Otherwise, surely the offering of them would have stopped, because the worshippers, when they hadbeen purified once, would have no awareness of sins.	2 For then they would have ceased to be offered: because the worshippers once cleansed should have no conscience of sin any longer:
3 But in fact the sins are recal ed year after year in the sacrifices.	3 But in them there is made a commemoration of sins every year.
4 Bul s' blood and goats' blood are incapable of taking away sins,	4 For it is impossible that with the blood of oxen and goats sin should be taken away.
5 and that is why he said, on coming into the world: You wanted no sacrifice or cereal offering, but yougave me a body.	5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith: Sacrifice and oblation thou wouldest not: but a body thou hast fitted to me:
6 You took no pleasure in burnt offering or sacrifice for sin;	6 Holocausts for sin did not please thee.
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.	7 Then said I: Behold I come: in the head of the book it is written of me: that I should do thy will, O God.
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;	8 In saying before, Sacrifices, and oblations, and holocausts for sin thou wouldest not, neither are they pleasing to thee, which are offered according to the law.
9 and then he says: Here I am! I am coming to do your wil . He is abolishing the first sort to establish thesecond.	9 Then said I: Behold, I come to do thy will, O God: he taketh away the first, that he may establish that which followeth.
10 And this will was for us to be made holy by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ made once andfor all.	10 In the which will, we are sanctified by the oblation of the body of Jesus Christ once.
11 Every priest stands at his duties every day, offering over and over again the same sacrifices whichare quite incapable of taking away sins.	11 And every priest indeed standeth daily ministering, and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
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,	12 But this man offering one sacrifice for sins, for ever sitteth on the right hand of God,
13 where he is now waiting til his enemies are made his footstool.	13 From henceforth expecting, until his enemies be made his footstool.
14 By virtue of that one single offering, he has achieved the eternal perfection of al who are sanctified.	14 For by one oblation he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
15 The Holy Spirit attests this to us, for after saying:	15 And the Holy Ghost also doth testify this to us. For after that he said:
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,	16 And this is the testament which I will make unto them after those days, saith the Lord. I will give my laws in their hearts, and on their minds will I write them:
17 and I shal never more call their sins to mind, or their offences.	17 And their sins and iniquities I will remember no more.
18 When these have been forgiven, there can be no more sin offerings.	18 Now where there is a remission of these, there is no more an oblation for sin.
19 We have then, brothers, complete confidence through the blood of Jesus in entering the sanctuary,	19 Having therefore, brethren, a confidence in the entering into the holies by the blood of Christ;
20 by a new way which he has opened for us, a living opening through the curtain, that is to say, hisflesh.	20 A new and living way which he hath dedicated for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh,
21 And we have the high priest over al the sanctuary of God.	21 And a high priest over the house of God:
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.	22 Let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with clean water.
23 Let us keep firm in the hope we profess, because the one who made the promise is trustworthy.	23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering (for he is faithful that hath promised),
24 Let us be concerned for each other, to stir a response in love and good works.	24 And let us consider one another, to provoke unto charity and to good works:
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.	25 Not forsaking our assembly, as some are accustomed; but comforting one another, and so much the more as you see the day approaching.
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.	26 For if we sin wilfully after having the knowledge of the truth, there is now left no sacrifice for sins,
27 There is left only the dreadful prospect of judgement and of the fiery wrath that is to devour yourenemies.	27 But a certain dreadful expectation of judgment, and the rage of a fire which shall consume the adversaries.
28 Anyone who disregards the Law of Moses is ruthlessly put to death on the word of two witnesses orthree;	28 A man making void the law of Moses, dieth without any mercy under two or three witnesses:
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.	29 How much more, do you think he deserveth worse punishments, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath esteemed the blood of the testament unclean, by which he was sanctified, and hath offered an affront to the Spirit of grace?
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.	30 For we know him that hath said: Vengeance belongeth to me, and I will repay. And again: The Lord shall judge his people.
31 It is a dreadful thing to fal into the hands of the living God.	31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 Remember the great chal enge of the sufferings that you had to meet after you received the light, inearlier days;	32 But call to mind the former days, wherein, being illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions.
33 sometimes by being yourselves publicly exposed to humiliations and violence, and sometimes asassociates of others who were treated in the same way.	33 And on the one hand indeed, by reproaches and tribulations, were made a gazingstock; and on the other, became companions of them that were used in such sort.
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.	34 For you both had compassion on them that were in bands, and took with joy the being stripped of your own goods, knowing that you have a better and a lasting substance.
35 Do not lose your fearlessness now, then, since the reward is so great.	35 Do not therefore lose your confidence, which hath a great reward.
36 You wil need perseverance if you are to do God's wil and gain what he has promised.	36 For patience is necessary for you; that, doing the will of God, you may receive the promise.
37 Only a little while now, a very little while, for come he certainly wil before too long.	37 For yet a little and a very little while, and he that is to come, will come, and will not delay.
38 My upright person will live through faith but if he draws back, my soul wil take no pleasure in him.	38 But my just man liveth by faith; but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please my 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.	39 But we are not the children of withdrawing unto perdition, but of faith to the saving of the soul.