But [as it is] these [continual] sacrifices bring a fresh reminder of sins [to be atoned for] year after year,

by this new and living way which He initiated and opened for us through the veil [as in the Holy of Holies], that is, through His flesh,

For it is impossible to arouse people to a fresh repentance when they have once for all come into the light and had a taste of the gift from heaven, and shared in the holy Spirit

They were stoned, they were cut up with knives, they were tested, they were put to death with the sword, they went about in sheepskins and in goatskins; being poor and in pain and cruelly attacked,

Cut through and make smooth, straight paths for your feet [that are safe and go in the right direction], so that the leg which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather may be healed.