Hebrews 10:1–18

THE PERFECT SACRIFICE

10Since the law has only a shadow of the good things^ac to come, and not the reality itself of those things, it can never perfect the worshipers by the same sacrifices they continually offer year after year. ²Otherwise, wouldn’t they have stopped being offered, since the worshipers, purified once and for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? ³But in the sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year. ⁴For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

⁵Therefore, as he was coming into the world, he said:

You did not desire sacrifice and offering,

but you prepared a body for me.

⁶You did not delight

in whole burnt offerings and sin offerings.

⁷Then I said, “See—

it is written about me

in the scroll—

I have come to do your will, God.”^Ea

⁸After he says above, You did not desire or delight in sacrifices and offerings, whole burnt offerings and sin offerings (which are offered according to the law^b), ⁹he then says, See, I have come to do your will.^F He takes away the first to establish the second. ¹⁰By this will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time.^c

¹¹Every priest stands day after day ministering and offering the same sacrifices time after time, which can never take away sins.^{d 12}But this man, after offering one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God.^{Ae 13}He is now waiting until his enemies are made his footstool.^{f 14}For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are sanctified. ¹⁵The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. For after he says:

¹⁶This is the covenant I will make with them

after those days,

the Lord says,

I will put my laws on their hearts

and write them on their minds,

¹⁷and I will never again remember

their sins and their lawless acts.^Bg

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