Hebrews 10:1–18

The Perfect Sacrifice

10 Since the law has only a shadow of the good things o to 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. 2 Otherwise, wouldn’t they have stopped being offered, since the worshipers, once purified, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? 3 But in the sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. 4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

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

You did not want sacrifice and offering,

but You prepared a body for Me.

6 You did not delight

in whole burnt offerings and sin offerings.

7 Then I said, “See—

it is written about Me

in the volume of the scroll—

I have come to do Your will, God!” p q

8 After 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), 9 He then says, See, I have come to do Your will. s He takes away the first to establish the second. 10 By this will of God, we have been * sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all. t

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

16 This 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,

17 He adds:

I will never again remember

their sins and their lawless acts. x y

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