Hebrews 10:1–18

Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All

10The law is only a shadowⁿ of the good things^o that are coming—not the realities themselves.^p For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect^q those who draw near to worship.^{r 2}Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins.^{s 3}But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins.^{t 4}It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats^u to take away sins.^v

⁵Therefore, when Christ came into the world,^w he said:

“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,

but a body you prepared for me;^x

⁶with burnt offerings and sin offerings

you were not pleased.

⁷Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll^y—

I have come to do your will, my God.’ ”^az

⁸First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them”^a—though they were offered in accordance with the law. ⁹Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.”^b He sets aside the first to establish the second. ¹⁰And by that will, we have been made holy^c through the sacrifice of the body^d of Jesus Christ once for all.^e

¹¹Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices,^f which can never take away sins.^{g 12}But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins,^h he sat down at the right hand of God,^{i 13}and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool.^{j 14}For by one sacrifice he has made perfect^k forever those who are being made holy.^l

¹⁵The Holy Spirit also testifies^m to us about this. First he says:

¹⁶“This is the covenant I will make with them

after that time, says the Lord.

I will put my laws in their hearts,

and I will write them on their minds.”^bn

¹⁷Then he adds:

“Their sins and lawless acts

I will remember no more.”^co

¹⁸And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary.