13. from now on waiting until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet.
14. For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy.
15. And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,
16. “This is the covenant that I will decree for them after those days, says the Lord: I am putting my laws on their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.”
17. He also says, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will never remember again.”
18. Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.
19. Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence for the entrance into the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,
20. by the new and living way which he inaugurated for us through the curtain, that is, his flesh,
21. and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
22. let us approach with a true heart in the full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
23. Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for the one who promised is faithful.
24. And let us think about how to stir one another up to love and good works,
25. not abandoning our meeting together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging each other, and by so much more as you see the day drawing near.
26. For if we keep on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
27. but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that is about to consume the adversaries.
28. Anyone who rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
29. How much worse punishment do you think the person will be considered worthy of who treats with disdain the Son of God and who considers ordinary the blood of the covenant by which he was made holy and who insults the Spirit of grace?
30. For we know the one who said, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.”
31. It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.