Hebrews 10:9
Good News Translation
Then he said, "Here I am, O God, to do your will." So God does away with all the old sacrifices and puts the sacrifice of Christ in their place.

New Revised Standard Version
then he added, “See, I have come to do your will.” He abolishes the first in order to establish the second.

Contemporary English Version
Well, it was to do away with offerings and sacrifices and to replace them. This is what he meant by saying to God, "I have come to do what you want."

New American Bible
Then he says, “Behold, I come to do your will.” He takes away the first to establish the second.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then said I: Behold, I come to do thy will, O God: He taketh away the first, that he may establish that which followeth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then said I: Behold, I come to do thy will, O God: He taketh away the first, that he may establish that which followeth.

Lo.

Hebrews 9:11-14 But Christ, being come an high Priest of the good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hand, that is, not of this creation: . . .

He taketh.

Hebrews 7:18,19 There is indeed a setting aside of the former commandment, because of the weakness and unprofitableness thereof: . . .

Hebrews 8:7-13 For if that former had been faultless, there should not indeed a place have been sought for a second. . . .

Hebrews 12:27,28 And in that he saith: Yet once more, he signifieth the translation of the moveable things as made, that those things may remain which are immoveable. . . .

Context
Christ's Perfect Sacrifice
8In saying before, Sacrifices, and oblations, and holocausts for sin thou wouldest not, neither are they pleasing to thee, which are offered according to the law. 9Then said I: Behold, I come to do thy will, O God: He taketh away the first, that he may establish that which followeth. 10In the which will, we are sanctified by the oblation of the body of Jesus Christ once.…
Cross References
Psalm 40:7
Then said I, Behold I come. In the head of the book it is written of me

Psalm 40:8
That I should do thy will: O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart.

Hebrews 10:7
Then said I: Behold I come: in the head of the book it is written of me: that I should do thy will, O God.

Hebrews 10:8
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