Hebrews 10:1–10

Christ’s One Sacrifice for Sin

10For the law, possessing a shadow of the good things that are about to come, not the form of things itself, is never able year by year^a by means of the same sacrifices which they offer without interruption to make perfect those who draw near. ²For otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the ones who worship, having been purified once and for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? ³But in them there is a reminder of sins year by year^b. ⁴For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

⁵Therefore, when he^* came into the world, he said,

“Sacrifice and offering you did not want,

but a body you prepared for me;

⁶you did not delight in whole burnt offerings and offerings for sins.

⁷Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—

in the roll of the book it is written about me—

to do your will, O God.’

⁸When he says above,

“Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and offerings for sin

you did not want, nor did you delight in,”^c

which are offered according to the law, ⁹then he has said,

“Behold, I have come to do your will.”^d

He takes away the first in order to establish the second, ¹⁰by which will we are made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.