Hebrews 10:1 in every translation
Leer en españolThe same verse in each translation we publish, grouped by language and by the tradition that made it. Numbering is matched for each text (for example, Psalms in the Septuagint).
English
Catholic
DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
For the law having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things; by the selfsame sacrifices which they offer continually every year, can never make the comers thereunto perfect:
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version
For the law contains the shadow of future good things, not the very image of these things. So, by the very same sacrifices which they offer ceaselessly each year, they can never cause these to approach perfection.
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
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.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
For the law having a shadow of the good [things ]to come, not the very image of the things, they can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh.
MSB Majority Standard Bible
For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. The same sacrifices offered year after year can never make perfect those who draw near to worship.
BSB Berean Standard Bible
For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
For the law having a shadow of the good [things] to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh.
LSV Literal Standard Version
For the Law having a shadow of the good things coming—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,
Read in context · Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/englsv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Darby Darby Translation
For the law, having a shadow of the coming good things, not the image itself of the things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually yearly, perfect those who approach.
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
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 to [them] perfect.
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
For the Law hauing the shadowe of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can neuer with those sacrifices, which they offer yeere by yeere continually, sanctifie the commers thereunto.
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the real forms of those things themselves. Those who approach God can never be made perfect by the same sacrifices that the priests continually bring year after year.
Read in context · Unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engULB/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tyndale Tyndale New Testament (1534)
For the lawe which hath but the shadowe of good thynges to come and not the thynges in their awne fassion can never with the sacryfises which they offer yere by yere continually make the comers thervnto parfayte.
Individual translator
YLT Young's Literal Translation
For 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,
FBV Free Bible Version
The law is just a shadow of the good that was to come, and not the actual reality. So it can never through the repeated sacrifices offered year after year make right those who come to worship God.
Read in context · Free Bible Version. Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engfbv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scholarly edition
BBE Bible in Basic English
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.
Spanish
Catholic
Scío Scío de San Miguel New Testament (1797)
Porque la Ley, teniendo la sombra de los bienes venideros, no la misma imagen de las cosas, nunca podía por aquellas mismas víctimas que se ofrecen sin cesar cada año, hacer perfectos á los que se llegan:
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
PORQUE la ley, teniendo la sombra de los bienes venideros, no la imagen misma de las cosas, nunca puede, por los mismos sacrificios que ofrecen continuamente cada año, hacer perfectos á los que se allegan.
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
La ley es sólo una sombra de los bienes que están por venir y no la realidad misma de esos bienes. Por eso, la ley nunca puede hacer perfectos a los que adoran por medio de los mismos sacrificios, año tras año sin cesar.
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
La Ley, que tiene [la ]sombra de los bienes futuros, no la misma imagen de las cosas, nunca puede perfeccionar a los que se acercan por medio de los mismos sacrificios que se ofrecen continuamente cada año.
Read in context · Palabra de Dios para ti © 2020 Asociación Bíblica Latinoamericana. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spapddpt/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
La ley es apenas una sombra de las cosas buenas que vendrían, y no de la realidad como tal. De modo que no podía justificar a los que venían a adorar a Dios por medio de sacrificios repetitivos que se ofrecían cada año.
Read in context · Versión Biblia Libre. Copyright © 2018-2020 Jonathan Gallagher y Shelly Barrios de Avila. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spavbl/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Porque la Ley, teniendo solo la sombra de los bienes venideros y no la realidad misma de esas cosas, nunca puede perfeccionar a los que se acercan a Dios por medio de los mismos sacrificios que se ofrecen continuamente año tras año.
Read in context · La Biblia en Español Sencillo, traducida y editada por Irma Flores (AudioBiblia.org).
Greek
Orthodox
PT1904 Patriarchal Text 1904 (accented, eBible edition)
Σκιὰν γὰρ ἔχων ὁ νόμος τῶν μελλόντων ἀγαθῶν, οὐκ αὐτὴν τὴν εἰκόνα τῶν πραγμάτων, κατ᾽ ἐνιαυτὸν ταῖς αὐταῖς θυσίαις ἃς προσφέρουσιν εἰς τὸ διηνεκές, οὐδέποτε δύναται τοὺς προσερχομένους τελειῶσαι·
PT Patriarchal Text (Antoniades 1904/1912)
σκιαν γαρ εχων ο νομος των μελλοντων αγαθων, ουκ αυτην την εικονα των πραγματων, κατ ενιαυτον ταις αυταις θυσιαις ας προσφερουσιν εις το διηνεκες, ουδεποτε δυναται τους προσερχομενους τελειωσαι·
Read in context · Patriarchal Text, Antoniades 1904/1912 edition, verified by Maurice A. Robinson and Jussi Ala-Konni (https://github.com/byztxt/greektext-antoniades). Public domain.
Individual translator
TR Textus Receptus (Boyd collation)
Σκιὰν γὰρ ἔχων ὁ νόμος τῶν μελλόντων ἀγαθῶν, οὐκ αὐτὴν τὴν εἰκόνα τῶν πραγμάτων, κατ᾿ ἐνιαυτὸν ταῖς αὐταῖς θυσίαις ἃς προσφέρουσιν εἰς τὸ διηνεκές, οὐδέποτε δύναται τοὺς προσερχομένους τελειῶσαι.
Scholarly edition
RP2018 Byzantine Textform (Robinson-Pierpont 2018)
σκιαν γαρ εχων ο νομοσ των μελλοντων αγαθων ουκ αυτην την εικονα των πραγματων κατ ενιαυτον ταισ αυταισ θυσιαισ ασ προσφερουσιν εισ το διηνεκεσ ουδεποτε δυνανται τουσ προσερχομενουσ τελειωσαι
Nestle 1904 Nestle Greek New Testament (1904)
Σκιὰν γὰρ ἔχων ὁ νόμος τῶν μελλόντων ἀγαθῶν, οὐκ αὐτὴν τὴν εἰκόνα τῶν πραγμάτων, κατ’ ἐνιαυτὸν ταῖς αὐταῖς θυσίαις ἃς προσφέρουσιν εἰς τὸ διηνεκὲς οὐδέποτε δύναται τοὺς προσερχομένους τελειῶσαι·
SBLGNT SBL Greek New Testament
Σκιὰν γὰρ ἔχων ὁ νόμος τῶν μελλόντων ἀγαθῶν, οὐκ αὐτὴν τὴν εἰκόνα τῶν πραγμάτων, κατʼ ἐνιαυτὸν ταῖς αὐταῖς θυσίαις ἃς προσφέρουσιν εἰς τὸ διηνεκὲς οὐδέποτε ⸀δύναται τοὺς προσερχομένους τελειῶσαι·
Read in context · The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition. Copyright 2010 by the Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/grcsbl/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate
Umbram enim habens lex futurorum bonorum, non ipsam imaginem rerum: per singulos annos, eisdem ipsis hostiis quas offerunt indesinenter, numquam potest accedentes perfectos facere:
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
Сѣ́нь бо и҆мы́й зако́нъ грѧдꙋ́щихъ бла̑гъ, (а҆) не са́мый ѡ҆́бразъ веще́й, на всѧ́кое лѣ́то тѣ́миже же́ртвами, и҆̀хже прино́сѧтъ вы́нꙋ, никогда́же мо́жетъ пристꙋпа́ющихъ соверши́ти.
Read in context · Church Slavonic text: Ponomar Project (github.com/typiconman/ponomar), © 2006–2018 Aleksandr Andreev and others, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Changes for this site (2026-10-18): lectionary pericope markers, marginal glosses and the closing note of Genesis removed, Psalm verses renumbered to the Russian Synodal numbering, joined verses noted; the words are unchanged.
Russian
Orthodox
Synodal Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
Закон, имея тень будущих благ, а не самый образ вещей, одними и теми же жертвами, каждый год постоянно приносимыми, никогда не может сделать совершенными приходящих с ними.
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Διότι ο νόμος, έχων σκιάν των μελλόντων αγαθών, ουχί αυτήν την εικόνα των πραγμάτων, δεν δύναταί ποτέ διά των αυτών θυσιών, τας οποίας προσφέρουσι κατ' ενιαυτόν πάντοτε να τελειοποιήση τους προσερχομένους·
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
Јер закон имајући сен добара која ће доћи, а не само обличје ствари, не може никада савршити оне који приступају сваке године и приносе оне исте жртве.
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
Jer zakon imajući sen dobara koja će doći, a ne samo obličje stvari, ne može nikada savršiti one koji pristupaju svake godine i prinose one iste žrtve.
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
لِأَنَّ ٱلنَّامُوسَ، إِذْ لَهُ ظِلُّ ٱلْخَيْرَاتِ ٱلْعَتِيدَةِ لَا نَفْسُ صُورَةِ ٱلْأَشْيَاءِ، لَا يَقْدِرُ أَبَدًا بِنَفْسِ ٱلذَّبَائِحِ كُلَّ سَنَةٍ، ٱلَّتِي يُقَدِّمُونَهَا عَلَى ٱلدَّوَامِ، أَنْ يُكَمِّلَ ٱلَّذِينَ يَتَقَدَّمُونَ.
Not in these translations (5)
Brenton, LXXUP, JPS, LXX, WLC