“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.
1 tn Grk “by which will.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
2 tn Grk “as being imprisoned together.”
3 tn Or “since you too are vulnerable”; Grk “you also being in the body.”
3 tn Grk “in assurance of faith.”
4 sn The phrase our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience combines the OT imagery of the sprinkling with blood to give ritual purity with the emphasis on the interior cleansing provided by the new covenant: It is the heart that is cleansed and the conscience made perfect (cf. Heb 8:10; 9:9, 14; 10:2, 16).
4 tn Grk “whose blood is brought by the high priest.”