Hebrews 10:1-10

Common English Bible

Christ’s once-for-all sacrifice

10 The Law is a shadow of the good things that are coming, not the real things themselves. It never can perfect the ones who are trying to draw near to God through the same sacrifices that are offered continually every year. ²Otherwise, wouldn’t they have stopped being offered? If the people carrying out their religious duties had been completely cleansed once, no one would have been aware of sin anymore. ³Instead, these sacrifices are a reminder of sin every year, ⁴because it’s impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

⁵Therefore, when he comes into the world he says,

You didn’t want a sacrifice or an offering,
    but you prepared a body for me;
⁶you weren’t pleased with entirely burned offerings or a sin offering.
⁷    So then I said,
    “Look, I’ve come to do your will, God.
    This has been written about me in the scroll.”^[a]

⁸He says above, You didn’t want and you weren’t pleased with a sacrifice or an offering or with entirely burned offerings or a purification offering,^[b] which are offered because the Law requires them. ⁹Then he said, Look, I’ve come to do your will.^[c] He puts an end to the first to establish the second. ¹⁰We have been made holy by God’s will through the offering of Jesus Christ’s body once for all.