1 Want die wet, wat 'n skaduwee het van die toekomstige weldade, nie die beeld self van die dinge nie, kan nooit deur dieselfde offers wat jaar na jaar gedurig gebring word, die wat toetree, tot volmaaktheid lei nie.
2 Anders sou hulle opgehou het om geoffer te word, omdat die wat die diens verrig, nadat hulle een maal gereinig is, geen bewussyn meer van sondes sou gehad het nie.
3 Maar in die offers is daar jaar na jaar 'n herinnering aan die sondes;
4 want die bloed van stiere en bokke kan onmoontlik die sonde wegneem.
5 Daarom sê Hy, as Hy in die wêreld inkom: Slagoffer en spysoffer wou U nie hê nie, maar U het vir My 'n liggaam berei.
6 Brandoffers en sondoffers het U nie behaag nie.
7 Toe het Ek gesê: Kyk, Ek kom -- in die boekrol is dit van My geskrywe -- om u wil te doen, o God.
8 Nadat Hy hierbo gespreek het: Slagoffer en spysoffer en brandoffers en sondoffers wou U nie hê en het U nie behaag nie -- wat volgens die wet geoffer word --
9 het Hy daarna gesê: Kyk, Ek kom om u wil te doen, o God. Hy neem die eerste weg om die tweede te stel.
10 Deur hierdie wil is ons geheilig deur die offer van die liggaam van Jesus Christus, net een maal.
11 En elke priester staan wel dag vir dag om die diens waar te neem en dikwels dieselfde slagoffers te bring wat tog nooit die sondes kan wegneem nie;
12 maar Hy het, nadat Hy een slagoffer vir die sondes gebring het, vir altyd gaan sit aan die regterhand van God
13 en wag nou verder totdat sy vyande gemaak is 'n voetbank van sy voete.
14 Want deur een offer het Hy vir altyd volmaak die wat geheilig word.
15 En ook die Heilige Gees gee aan ons getuienis;
16 want nadat Hy tevore gesê het: Dit is die verbond wat Ek met hulle sal sluit n die dae, spreek die Here verder: Ek sal my wette gee in hulle hart, en in hulle verstand sal Ek dit inskrywe,
17 en aan hulle sondes en hulle ongeregtighede sal Ek nooit meer dink nie.
18 Waar daar nou vergifnis van hierdie dinge is, is daar geen offer meer vir die sonde nie.
19 Terwyl ons dan, broeders, vrymoedigheid het om in die heiligdom in te gaan deur die bloed van Jesus
20 op die nuwe en lewende weg wat Hy vir ons ingewy het deur die voorhangsel heen, dit is sy vlees,
21 en ons 'n groot Priester oor die huis van God het,
22 laat ons toetree met 'n waaragtige hart in volle geloofsversekerdheid, die harte deur besprenkeling gereinig van 'n slegte gewete en die liggaam gewas met rein water.
23 Laat ons die belydenis van die hoop onwankelbaar vashou, want Hy wat dit beloof het, is getrou;
24 en laat ons op mekaar ag gee om tot liefde en goeie werke aan te spoor;
25 en laat ons ons onderlinge byeenkoms nie versuim soos sommige die gewoonte het nie, maar laat ons mekaar vermaan, en dit des te meer namate julle die dag sien nader kom.
26 Want as ons opsetlik sondig, nadat ons die kennis van die waarheid ontvang het, bly daar geen offer vir die sondes meer oor nie,
27 maar 'n verskriklike verwagting van oordeel en 'n vuurgloed wat die teëstanders sal verteer.
28 As iemand die wet van Moses verwerp het, sterf hy sonder ontferming op die getuienis van twee of drie;
29 hoeveel swaarder straf, dink julle, sal hy verdien wat die Seun van God vertrap het en die bloed van die testament waardeur hy geheilig is, onrein geag en die Gees van genade gesmaad het?
30 Want ons ken Hom wat gesê het: My kom die wraak toe, Ek sal vergelde, spreek die Here; en weer: Die Here sal sy volk oordeel.
31 Vreeslik is dit om te val in die hande van die lewende God.
32 Maar onthou die vorige dae waarin julle, toe julle verlig geword het, 'n groot lydensworsteling deurstaan het,
33 gedeeltelik omdat julle deur smaad en verdrukkinge 'n skouspel geword het, gedeeltelik omdat julle deelgenote geword het van die wat in so 'n toestand verkeer het.
34 Want julle het ook saam met my gevoel in my boeie, en julle het die berowing van julle goed met blydskap aanvaar, omdat julle geweet het dat julle in julself 'n beter en blywende besitting in die hemele het.
35 Werp dan julle vrymoedigheid, wat 'n groot beloning het, nie weg nie.
36 Want julle het lydsaamheid nodig, om, nadat julle die wil van God gedoen het, die belofte te verkry.
37 Want nog 'n klein tydjie, en Hy wat kom, sal kom en nie versuim nie.
38 Maar die regverdige sal uit die geloof lewe; en as hy hom onttrek, het my siel geen welbehae in hom nie.
39 Maar by ons is daar geen onttrekking tot verderf nie, maar geloof tot behoud van die lewe.
1 For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean.
2 For if this had been possible, would there not have been an end of those offerings, because the worshippers would have been made completely clean and would have been no longer conscious of sins?
3 But year by year there is a memory of sins in those offerings.
4 Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins.
5 So that when he comes into the world, he says, You had no desire for offerings, but you made a body ready for me;
6 You had no joy in burned offerings or in offerings for sin.
7 Then I said, See, I have come to do your pleasure, O God (as it is said of me in the roll of the book).
8 After saying, You had no desire for offerings, for burned offerings or offerings for sin (which are made by the law) and you had no pleasure in them,
9 Then he said, See, I have come to do your pleasure. He took away the old order, so that he might put the new order in its place.
10 By that pleasure we have been made holy, by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for ever.
11 And every priest takes his place at the altar day by day, doing what is necessary, and making again and again the same offerings which are never able to take away sins.
12 But when Jesus had made one offering for sins for ever, he took his place at the right hand of God;
13 And has been waiting there from that time, till all who are against him are made a foot-rest for his feet.
14 Because by one offering he has made complete for ever those who are made holy.
15 And the Holy Spirit is a witness for us: for after he had said,
16 This is the agreement which I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws in their hearts, writing them in their minds; he said,
17 And I will keep no more memory of their sins and of their evil-doings.
18 Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no more offering for sin.
19 So then, my brothers, being able to go into the holy place without fear, because of the blood of Jesus,
20 By the new and living way which he made open for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
21 And having a great priest over the house of God,
22 Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:
23 Let us keep the witness of our hope strong and unshaking, for he is true who has given his word:
24 And let us be moving one another at all times to love and good works;
25 Not giving up our meetings, as is the way of some, but keeping one another strong in faith; and all the more because you see the day coming near.
26 For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins,
27 But only a great fear of being judged, and of the fire of wrath which will be the destruction of the haters of God.
28 A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses:
29 But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment?
30 For we have had experience of him who says, Punishment is mine, I will give reward. And again, The Lord will be judge of his people.
31 We may well go in fear of falling into the hands of the living God.
32 But give thought to the days after you had seen the light, when you went through a great war of troubles;
33 In part, in being attacked by angry words and cruel acts, before the eyes of everyone, and in part, in being united with those who were attacked in this way.
34 For you had pity on those who were in prison, and had joy in the loss of your property, in the knowledge that you still had a better property and one which you would keep for ever.
35 So do not give up your hope which will be greatly rewarded.
36 For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.
37 In a very little time he who is coming will come; he will not be slow.
38 But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.
39 But we are not of those who go back to destruction; but of those who have faith even to the salvation of the soul.