Concluding Exposition: Old and New Sacrifices Contrasted

10:1 For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.1 10:2 For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once for all and so have2 no further consciousness of sin? 10:3 But in those sacrifices3 there is a reminder of sins year after year. 10:4 For the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sins.4 10:5 So when he came into the world, he said,

“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.

10:6 “Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no delight in.

10:7 “Then I said, ‘Here I am:5 I have come—it is written of me in the scroll of the book—to do your will, O God.’ ”6

10:8 When he says above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them”7 (which are offered according to the law), 10:9 then he says, “Here I am: I have come to do your will.”8 He does away with9 the first to establish the second. 10:10 By his will10 we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 10:11 And every priest stands day after day11 serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again—sacrifices that can never take away sins. 10:12 But when this priest12 had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right hand13 of God, 10:13 where he is now waiting14 until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet.15 10:14 For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy.