Hebrews 10:1–10

Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All

¹⁰Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of these realities, it^v can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered year after year, make perfect those who approach.^{* 2}Otherwise, would they not have ceased being offered, since the worshipers, cleansed once for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sin? ³But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sin year after year.^{* 4}For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.^{* 5}Consequently, when Christ^w came into the world, he said,

“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,

but a body you have prepared for me;^*

⁶in burnt offerings and sin offerings

you have taken no pleasure.

⁷Then I said, ‘See, I have come to do your will, O God’

(in the scroll of the book^x it is written of me).”^*

⁸When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), ⁹then he added, “See, I have come to do your will.” He abolishes the first in order to establish the second. ¹⁰And it is by God’s will^y that we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.^*