Amos 4:1-5

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4 “Hear this word, ^(A)you cows of Bashan,
    who are ^(B)on the mountain of Samaria,
^(C)who oppress the poor, ^(D)who crush the needy,
    who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’
²^(E)The Lord God has sworn by his holiness
    that, behold, the days are coming upon you,
^(F)when they shall take you away with hooks,
    ^(G)even the last of you with fishhooks.
³^(H)And you shall go out through the breaches,
    each one straight ahead;
    and you shall be cast out into Harmon,”
declares the Lord.

⁴^(I)“Come to Bethel, and transgress;
    to ^(J)Gilgal, and multiply transgression;
^(K)bring your ^(L)sacrifices every morning,
    your tithes every three days;
⁵offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of ^(M)that which is leavened,
    and proclaim ^(N)freewill offerings, publish them;
    ^(O)for so you love to do, O people of Israel!”
declares the Lord God.

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Hebrews 10:1-12

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Christ's Sacrifice Once for All

10 For since the law has but ^(A)a shadow ^(B)of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, ^(C)it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. ²Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? ³But ^(D)in these sacrifices ^(E)there is a reminder of sins every year. ⁴For ^(F)it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

⁵Consequently, ^(G)when Christ^[a] came into the world, he said,

^(H)“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,
    but a body have you prepared for me;
⁶in burnt offerings and sin offerings
    you have taken no pleasure.
⁷Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,
    as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”

⁸When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in ^(I)sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), ⁹then he added, ^(J)“Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. ¹⁰And by that will ^(K)we have been sanctified through the offering of ^(L)the body of Jesus Christ ^(M)once for all.

¹¹And every priest stands ^(N)daily at his service, ^(O)offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, ^(P)which can never take away sins. ¹²But when Christ^[b] had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he ^(Q)sat down at the right hand of God,