Hebrews 10:1-9 ▼

1 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.

2 Or else would not they have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

3 But in those sacrifices there is yearly reminder of sins.

4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

5 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, |Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.

6 Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no pleasure in.

7 Then I said, 'Look, I have come. It is written about me in the scroll of a book; to do your will, O God.'|

8 Previously saying, |Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire, nor took pleasure in| (which are offered according to the Law),

9 then he said, |Look, I have come to do your will.| He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,