Hebrews 10:1–14

Animal Sacrifices Insufficient

10For the law, having a ^ashadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, ^bcan never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. ²For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once ¹purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. ³But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. ⁴For ^cit is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.

Christ’s Death Fulfills God’s Will

⁵Therefore, when He came into the world, He said:

^d“Sacrifice and offering You did not desire,

But a body You have prepared for Me.

⁶In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin

You had no pleasure.

⁷Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—

In the volume of the book it is written of Me—

To do Your will, O God.’ ”

⁸Previously saying, “Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the law), ⁹then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, ²O God.” He takes away the first that He may establish the second. ^10eBy that will we have been ³sanctified ^fthrough the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Christ’s Death Perfects the Sanctified

¹¹And every priest stands ^gministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. ^12hBut this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down ⁱat the right hand of God, ¹³from that time waiting ^jtill His enemies are made His footstool. ¹⁴For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being ⁴sanctified.