¹For the law having a shadow of the coming good things — not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near,

¹Sheria ya Wayahudi si picha kamili ya mambo yale halisi: ni kivuli tu cha mema yanayokuja. Dhabihu zilezile hutolewa daima, mwaka baada ya mwaka. Sheria yawezaje, basi, kwa njia ya dhabihu hizo, kuwafanya wale wanaoabudu wawe wakamilifu?

²since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified?

²Kama hao watu wanaomwabudu Mungu wangekuwa wametakaswa dhambi zao kweli, hawangejisikia tena kuwa na dhambi, na dhabihu hizo zote zingekoma.

³but in those [sacrifices] is a remembrance of sins every year,

³Lakini dhabihu hizo hufanyika kila mwaka kuwakumbusha watu dhambi zao.

⁴for it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

⁴Maana damu ya fahali na mbuzi haiwezi kamwe kuondoa dhambi.

⁵Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, `Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not will, and a body Thou didst prepare for me,

⁵Ndiyo maana Kristo alipokuwa anakuja ulimwenguni, alimwambia Mungu: "Hukutaka dhabihu wala sadaka, lakini umenitayarishia mwili.

⁶in burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offerings, Thou didst not delight,

⁶Sadaka za kuteketezwa au za kuondoa dhambi hazikupendezi.

⁷then I said, Lo, I come, (in a volume of the book it hath been written concerning me,) to do, O God, Thy will;`

⁷Hapo nikasema: Niko hapa ee Mungu, tayari kufanya mapenzi yako kama ilivyoandikwa juu yangu katika kitabu cha Sheria."

⁸saying above — `Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offering Thou didst not will, nor delight in,` — which according to the law are offered —

⁸Kwanza alisema: "Hutaki, wala hupendezwi na dhabihu na sadaka, sadaka za kuteketezwa na za kuondoa dhambi." Alisema hivyo ingawa sadaka hizi zote hutolewa kufuatana na Sheria.

⁹then he said, `Lo, I come to do, O God, Thy will;` he doth take away the first that the second he may establish;

⁹Kisha akasema: "Niko hapa, ee Mungu, tayari kufanya mapenzi yako." Hivyo Mungu alibatilisha dhabihu za zamani na mahali pake akaweka dhabihu nyingine moja.

¹⁰in the which will we are having been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once,

¹⁰Kwa kuwa Yesu Kristo alitimiza mapenzi ya Mungu, sisi tunatakaswa dhambi zetu kwa ile dhabihu ya mwili wake aliyotoa mara moja tu, ikatosha.

¹¹and every priest, indeed, hath stood daily serving, and the same sacrifices many times offering, that are never able to take away sins.

¹¹Kila kuhani Myahudi humhudumia Mungu kila siku, akitoa dhabibu zilezile mara nyingi, dhabibu ambazo haziwezi kuondoa dhambi.

¹²And He, for sin one sacrifice having offered — to the end, did sit down on the right hand of God, —

¹²Lakini Kristo alitoa dhabihu moja tu kwa ajili ya dhambi, dhabihu ifaayo milele, kisha akaketi upande wa kulia wa Mungu.

¹³as to the rest, expecting till He may place his enemies [as] his footstool,

¹³Huko anangoja mpaka adui zake watakapowekwa kama kibao chini ya miguu yake.

¹⁴for by one offering he hath perfected to the end those sanctified;

¹⁴Basi, kwa dhabihu yake moja tu, amewafanya kuwa wakamilifu milele wale wanaotakaswa dhambi zao.

¹⁵and testify to us also doth the Holy Spirit, for after that He hath said before,

¹⁵Naye Roho Mtakatifu anatupa ushahidi wake. Kwanza anasema:

¹⁶`This [is] the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws on their hearts, and upon their minds I will write them,`

¹⁶"Hili ndilo agano nitakalofanya nao, katika siku zijazo, asema Bwana: Nitaweka sheria zangu mioyoni mwao, na kuziandika akilini mwao."

¹⁷and `their sins and their lawlessness I will remember no more;`

¹⁷Kisha akaongeza kusema: "Sitakumbuka tena dhambi zao, wala vitendo vyao vya uhalifu."

¹⁸and where forgiveness of these [is], there is no more offering for sin.

¹⁸Basi, dhambi zikisha ondolewa, hakutakuwa na haja tena ya kutoa dhabihu za kuondoa dhambi.

¹⁹Having, therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holy places, in the blood of Jesus,

¹⁹Basi, ndugu, kwa damu ya Yesu tunapewa moyo thabiti wa kuingia Mahali Patakatifu.

²⁰which way he did initiate for us — new and living, through the vail, that is, his flesh —

²⁰Yeye ametufungulia njia mpya na yenye uzima kupitia lile pazia, yaani kwa njia ya mwili wake mwenyewe.

²¹and a high priest over the house of God,

²¹Basi, tunaye kuhani maarufu aliye na mamlaka juu ya nyumba ya Mungu.

²²may we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed with pure water;

²²Kwa hiyo tumkaribie Mungu kwa moyo mnyofu na imani timilifu, kwa mioyo iliyotakaswa dhamiri mbaya, na kwa miili iliyosafishwa kwa maji safi.

²³may we hold fast the unwavering profession of the hope, (for faithful [is] He who did promise),

²³Tushikilie imara tumaini lile tunalokiri, maana Mungu aliyefanya ahadi zake ni mwaminifu.

²⁴and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,

²⁴Tujitahidi kushughulikiana kwa ajili ya kuongezeana bidii ya kupendana na kutenda mema.

²⁵not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain [is], but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.

²⁵Tusiache ile desturi ya kukutana pamoja, kama vile wengine wanavyofanya. Bali tunapaswa kusaidiana kwani, kama mwonavyo, Siku ile ya Bwana inakaribia.

²⁶For we — willfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth — no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice,

²⁶Maana, tukiendelea kutenda dhambi makusudi baada ya kufahamu ukweli, hakuna dhabihu iwezayo kutolewa tena kwa ajili ya kuondoa dhambi.

²⁷but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery zeal, about to devour the opposers;

²⁷Linalobaki ni kungojea tu kwa hofu hukumu ya Mungu na moto mkali utakaowaangamiza wote wanaompinga.

²⁸any one who did set at nought a law of Moses, apart from mercies, by two or three witnesses, doth die,

²⁸Mtu yeyote asiyeitii Sheria ya Mose, huuawa bila ya huruma kukiwa na ushahidi wa watu wawili au watatu.

²⁹of how much sorer punishment shall he be counted worthy who the Son of God did trample on, and the blood of the covenant did count a common thing, in which he was sanctified, and to the Spirit of the grace did despite?

²⁹Je, mtu yule anayempuuza Mwana wa Mungu na kuidharau damu ya agano la Mungu iliyomtakasa, mtu anayemtukana Roho wa Mungu, anastahili kupata adhabu kali ya namna gani?

³⁰for we have known Him who is saying, `Vengeance [is] Mine, I will recompense, saith the Lord;` and again, `The Lord shall judge His people;` —

³⁰Maana tunamfahamu yule aliyesema, "Mimi nitalipiza kisasi, mimi nitalipiza," na ambaye alisema pia, "Bwana atawahukumu watu wake."

³¹fearful [is] the falling into the hands of a living God.

³¹Kuanguka mikononi mwa Mungu aliye hai ni jambo la kutisha mno!

³²And call to your remembrance the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye did endure much conflict of sufferings,

³²Kumbukeni yaliyotokea siku zile za kwanza mlipoangaziwa mwanga wa Mungu. Ingawa siku zile mlipatwa na mateso mengi, ninyi mlistahimili.

³³partly both with reproaches and tribulations being made spectacles, and partly having become partners of those so living,

³³Mara nyingine mlitukanwa na kufedheheshwa hadharani; mara nyingine mlikuwa radhi kuungana na wale walioteswa namna hiyohiyo.

³⁴for also with my bonds ye sympathised, and the robbery of your goods with joy ye did receive, knowing that ye have in yourselves a better substance in the heavens, and an enduring one.

³⁴Mlishiriki mateso ya wafungwa, na mliponyang'anywa mali yenu mlistahimili kwa furaha, maana mlijua kwamba mnayo mali bora zaidi na ya kudumu milele.

³⁵Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward,

³⁵Basi, msipoteze uhodari wenu, maana utawapatieni tuzo kubwa.

³⁶for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise,

³⁶Mnahitaji kuwa na uvumilivu, ili mweze kufanya anayotaka Mungu na kupokea kile alichoahidi.

³⁷for yet a very very little, He who is coming will come, and will not tarry;

³⁷Maana kama yasemavyo Maandiko: "Bado kidogo tu, na yule anayekuja, atakuja, wala hatakawia.

³⁸and `the righteous by faith shall live,` and `if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,`

³⁸Lakini mtu wangu aliye mwadilifu ataamini na kuishi; walakini akirudi nyuma, mimi sitapendezwa naye."

³⁹and we are not of those drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul.

³⁹Basi, sisi hatumo miongoni mwa wale wanaorudi nyuma na kupotea, ila sisi tunaamini na tunaokolewa.