The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming – not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
NIV
FOR SINCE the Law has merely a rude outline (foreshadowing) of the good things to come--instead of fully expressing those things--it can never by offering the same sacrifices continually year after year make perfect those who approach [its altars].
AMP
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.
KJV
It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
NIV
It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God's love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong].
AMP
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
KJV
I may indeed be untrained as a speaker, but I do have knowledge. We have made this perfectly clear to you in every way.
NIV
But even if [I am] unskilled in speaking, yet [I am] not [unskilled] in knowledge [I know what I am talking about]; we have made this evident to you in all things.
AMP
But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
KJV
