Update final reading Bram

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-\v 1 For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not those realities themselves. The law can never make perfect those who approach God by means of the same sacrifices that the priests continually offer year after year.
+\v 1 For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the real forms of those things themselves. Those who approach can never be made perfect by the same, yearly sacrifices that they bring continually.
-\v 2 Or else would not those sacrifices have ceased to be offered? In that case the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more awareness of sins.
+\v 2 Or else would not those sacrifices have ceased to be offered? Because the worshippers would have no longer been conscious of sins if they had been cleansed once and for all.
 \v 3 But with those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year.
 \v 4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
 
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-\v 8 First he said, "It was neither sacrifices, offerings, whole burnt offerings, nor sacrifices for sin that you desired. Nor did you take pleasure in them." These are sacrifices that are offered according to the law.
+\v 8 First he said, "It was neither sacrifices, nor offerings, nor whole burnt offerings, nor sacrifices for sin that you desired. Nor did you take pleasure in them." These are sacrifices that are offered according to the law.
-\v 9 Then he said, "See, here I am to do your will." He takes away the first practice in order to establish the second.
+\v 9 Then he said, "See, here I am to do your will." He takes away the first in order to establish the second.
-\v 10 In the second practice, we have been dedicated to God by his will through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
+\v 10 In the second, we have been dedicated to God by his will through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
 
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-\v 11 On the one hand, every priest stands day by day serving, always offering the same sacrifices, which, however, can never take away sins.
+\v 11 Every priest stands day by day serving, always offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
-\v 12 On the other hand, Christ offered one sacrifice for sins forever, he sat down at the right hand of God.
+\v 12 But he offered one sacrifice for sins forever, he sat down at the right hand of God.
 \v 13 He is waiting until his enemies are made a stool for his feet.
 \v 14 For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are dedicated to God.
  
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 \v 15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us. For first he said,
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-\v 16 "'This is the covenant that I will make with them
+\v 16 "This is the covenant that I will make with them
-\q after those days,' says the Lord:
+\q after those days—says the Lord—
-\q 'I will put my laws in their hearts,
+\q I will put my laws in their hearts,
 \q and I will write them on their minds.
 
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-\v 17 No more will I remember their sins and iniquities.'"
+\v 17 No more will I remember their sins and iniquities."
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 \v 18 Now where there is forgiveness for these, there is no longer any sacrifice for sin.
 
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 \v 22 let us approach with true hearts in the full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.
 
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-\v 23 Let us also hold tightly to the confession of our confident expectation, without wavering, because God who has promised is faithful.
+\v 23 Let us also hold tightly to the confession of our confident expectation, without hesitating, because God who has promised is faithful.
 \v 24 Let us consider how to motivate one another to love and good deeds.
-\v 25 Let us not stop assembling together, as some have done. Instead, encourage one another more and more, and all the more as you see the day approaching.
+\v 25 Let us not stop meeting together, as some have done. Instead, encourage one another more and more, and all the more as you see the day coming closer.
 
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 \v 26 For if we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, a sacrifice for sins no longer exists.
-\v 27 Instead, there is only a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume God's enemies.
+\v 27 Instead, there is only a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierce fire that will consume the enemies of God.
 
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 \v 28 Anyone who has rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy at the testimony of two or three witnesses.
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-\v 32 But remember the former days, after you were enlightened, how you endured a great agony of suffering.
+\v 32 But remember the former days, after you were enlightened, how you endured a great struggle of suffering.
-\v 33 You were exposed to public ridicule by insults and persecution, and you were participants with those who went through such suffering.
+\v 33 You were exposed to public ridicule by insults and persecution, and you were sharing with those who went through such suffering.
 \v 34 For you had compassion on those who were prisoners, and you accepted with joy the seizure of your possessions. You knew that you yourselves had a better and everlasting possession.
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 \v 35 So do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
 \v 36 For you need patience, so that you may receive what God has promised, after you have done his will.
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-\v 37 "For in a very little while,
+\v 37 "For in a very short amount of time,
 \q the one who is coming will indeed come and not delay.
 
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 \v 38 My righteous one will live by faith.
 \q If he turns back, I will not be pleased with him."
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-\v 39 But we are not any  of those who turn back to destruction. Instead, we are some of those who have faith for keeping our soul.
+\v 39 But we are not those who turn back to destruction. Instead, we are those who have faith to preserve our soul.
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