Hebrews 10:1–9

¹For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.↗

²Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?↗

³But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins.↗

⁴For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.↗

⁵Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me.↗

⁶You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.↗

⁷Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’”↗

⁸Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in them” (those which are offered according to the law),↗

⁹then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,↗