Hebrews 10:1–18

The Perfect Sacrifice

10Since the law has only a shadow of the good things ^oto come, and not the actual form of those realities, 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, once purified, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? ³But in the sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every 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 want 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 volume of the scroll—

I have come to do Your will, God!” ^pq

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

¹¹Every priest stands day after day ministering and offering the same sacrifices time after time, which can never take away sins. ^u12But this man, after offering one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God. ^v13He is now waiting until His enemies are made His footstool. ^w14For 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, says the Lord:

I will put My laws on their hearts

and write them on their minds,

¹⁷He adds:

I will never again remember

their sins and their lawless acts. ^xy

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