MODERN LITERAL VERSION

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 perfect those who come near with the same continual sacrifices which they are offering yearly.
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 no more consciousness of sins.
10:3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance made of sins yearly.
10:4 For* it is impossible that the blood of oxen and he-goats should take away sins.
10:5 Hence when he comes into the world, he says, ‘You did not wish to have sacrifice and offering, but you did perfect 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 come to do your will, O God.' {Ps. 40:6-8}
10:8 After saying this above, You do not wish, nor were 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 come to do your will, O God.' {Ps. 40:6-8} He {F} abolishes the first {F} covenant *, in order that he should establish the second {F} covenant *.
10:10 In which we will have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
10:11 And indeed every priest has stood daily ministering* and often offering the same sacrifices, which are never* able to take away sins.
10:12 But when he had 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 perfected the sanctified by one continual offering.
10:15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for* after he has said,
10:16 ‘This is the covenant* that I will covenant* *for them after those days, says the Lord, I will give my laws upon their heart and I will also 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 at the entrance into the holy-places by the blood of Jesus,
10:20 a way which he dedicated for us, a fresh and living way, through the curtain, that is to say, 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, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our body bathed with clean water.
10:23 We should hold-onto the confession of our hope– unwavering; for* he who promised is faithful.
10:24 And let us consider one another *for motivating each other to love* and to 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* if we sin willfully after receiving the full knowledge of the truth, 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 devour the adversaries.
10:28 Anyone rejecting the Law of Moses dies without mercy upon the word of two or three witnesses.
10:29 How much worse punishment, do you* think he will be deemed worthy of, who has trampled under foot the Son of God and has deemed common the blood of the covenant* in which he was sanctified and has insulted the Spirit of the grace?
10:30 For* we know him who said, ‘Vengeance is for me. I will repay says the Lord.' And again, ‘The Lord will judge his people.' {Deut. 32:35-36, Ps. 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, in which, after you* were enlightened, you* endured a large conflict of sufferings;
10:33 in this indeed, you* were made a spectacle both by reproaches and afflictions, but in this too, you became partners with those who conducted themselves so.
10:34 For* you* also sympathized with those who were in bonds and accepted the plunder 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, that*, having done the will of God, you* may get the promise.
10:37 ‘For* yet a little while, O how-much? O how-much? He who is coming will come and will not delay.
10:38 But my righteous one will live from faith and if he shrinks-back, my soul does not delight in him.' {Is. 26:20, Hab. 2:3-4}
10:39 But we are not from this shrinking-back leading to destruction, but we are from the faith leading to the preservation of the soul.
{Footnotes: Heb 10:8a Or: take away (permanently) OR assassinates. 10:8b SEE 7:22 footnote or the Appendix.}