One Sacrifice of Christ Is Sufficient

1 For the Law, since it has only aa shadow of bthe good things to come and not the very 1form of things, 2can cnever, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, dmake perfect those who draw near.

2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had aconsciousness of sins?

3 But ain 1those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year.

4 For it is aimpossible for the bblood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

5 Therefore, awhen He comes into the world, He says,

“bSacrifice and offering You have not desired,

But ca body You have prepared for Me;

6 aIn whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have taken no pleasure.

7 “aThen I said, ‘Behold, I have come

(In bthe scroll of the book it is written of Me)

To do Your will, O God.’ ”

8 After saying above, “aSacrifices and offerings and bwhole burnt offerings and sacrifices cfor sin You have not desired, nor have You taken pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the Law),

9 then He 1said, “aBehold, I have come to do Your will.” He takes away the first in order to establish the second.

10 By 1this will we have been asanctified through bthe offering of cthe body of Jesus Christ donce for all.

11 Every priest stands daily ministering and aoffering time after time the same sacrifices, which bcan never take away sins;

12 but He, having offered one sacrifice afor 1sins bfor all time, csat down at the right hand of God,

13 waiting from that time onward auntil His enemies be made a footstool for His feet.

14 For by one offering He has aperfected bfor all time those who are 1sanctified.

15 And athe Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying,

16 “aThis is the covenant that I will make with them

After those days, says the Lord:

I will put My laws upon their heart,

And on their mind I will write them,”

He then says,

17 “aAnd their sins and their lawless deeds

I will remember no more.”

18 Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin.