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By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,

Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,

For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;

Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.

But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man"s line of things made ready to our hand.

Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men"s labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,

For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:

But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.

For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.

Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.

For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.