¹⁹ (Because the law made nothing complete), and in its place there is a better hope, through which we come near to God.

¹⁶ Then let us come near to the seat of grace without fear, so that mercy may be given to us, and we may get grace for our help in time of need.

⁹ And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean,

³⁹ And through him everyone who has faith is made free from all those things, from which the law of Moses was not able to make you free.

³ For what the law was not able to do because it was feeble through the flesh, God, sending his Son in the image of the evil flesh, and as an offering for sin, gave his decision against sin in the flesh:

¹⁶ Being conscious that a man does not get righteousness by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we had faith in Christ Jesus, so that we might get righteousness by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh get righteousness.

¹⁸ So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;

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.

⁴⁰ Because God had kept some better thing for us, so that it was not possible for them to become complete without us.

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:

⁶ But now his position as priest is higher. because through him God has made a better agreement with man, based on the giving of better things.

²⁵ So that he is fully able to be the saviour of all who come to God through him, because he is ever living to make prayer to God for them.

¹¹ Now if it was possible for things to be made complete through the priests of the house of Levi (for the law was given to the people in connection with them), what need was there for another priest who was of the order of Melchizedek and not of the order of Aaron?

¹⁷ For the law was given through Moses; grace and the true way of life are ours through Jesus Christ.

⁶ Jesus said to him, I am the true and living way: no one comes to the Father but by me.

²⁰ Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

²¹ But now without the law there is a revelation of the righteousness of God, to which witness is given by the law and the prophets;

² Through whom, in the same way, we have been able by faith to come to this grace in which we now are; and let us have joy in hope of the glory of God.

²⁴ So the law has been a servant to take us to Christ, so that we might have righteousness by faith.

¹³ But now in Christ Jesus you who at one time were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

¹⁴ For he is our peace, who has made the two into one, and by whom the middle wall of division has been broken down,

¹⁵ Having in his flesh put an end to that which made the division between us, even the law with its rules and orders, so that he might make in himself, of the two, one new man, so making peace;

¹⁶ And that the two might come into agreement with God in one body through the cross, so putting an end to that division.

¹⁷ And he came preaching peace to you who were far off, and to those who were near;

¹⁸ Because through him the two of us are able to come near in one Spirit to the Father.

¹² By whom we come near to God without fear through faith in him.

²⁷ To whom God was pleased to give knowledge of the wealth of the glory of this secret among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

¹ Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, by the order of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope;

²⁸ But it is good for me to come near to God: I have put my faith in the Lord God, so that I may make clear all his works.