For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the
good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same
sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who
draw near. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the
worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness
of sins? But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year. For
it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
Therefore, when He comes into the world, He
says,
“SACRIFICE AND OFFERING YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, BUT
A BODY YOU HAVE PREPARED FOR ME; IN WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR
SIN YOU HAVE TAKEN NO PLEASURE. “THEN I SAID, ‘BEHOLD, I HAVE COME (IN THE
SCROLL OF THE BOOK IT IS WRITTEN OF ME) TO DO YOUR WILL, O GOD.’”
After saying above, “SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS
AND WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, NOR HAVE
YOU TAKEN PLEASURE in them” (which are offered according to the Law), then He
said, “BEHOLD, I HAVE COME TO DO YOUR WILL.”
He takes away the first in order
to establish the second. By this will we have been sanctified through the
offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
- Hebrews 10:1-10
- Hebrews 10:1-10