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The Messiah Offered One Sacrifice

For this reason, the Scriptures[a] say, when the Messiah[b] was about to come into the world:

“You did not want sacrifices and offerings,
    but you prepared a body for me.
In burnt offerings and sin offerings
    you never took delight.
Then I said, ‘See, I have come to do your will, O God’
    In the volume of the scroll this is written about me.”[c]

In this passage he says, “You never wanted or took delight in sacrifices, offerings, burnt offerings, and sin offerings,”[d] which are offered according to the Law. Then he says, “See, I have come to do your will.”[e] He takes away the first in order to establish the second. 10 By God’s will we have been sanctified once and for all through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus, the Messiah.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 10:5 The Gk. lacks the Scriptures
  2. Hebrews 10:5 Lit. when he
  3. Hebrews 10:7 Cf. Ps 40:6-8
  4. Hebrews 10:8 Cf. Ps 40:6
  5. Hebrews 10:9 Cf. Ps 40:7
  6. Hebrews 10:10 Or Christ

Therefore, when Christ came into the world,(A) he said:

“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
    but a body you prepared for me;(B)
with burnt offerings and sin offerings
    you were not pleased.
Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll(C)
    I have come to do your will, my God.’”[a](D)

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

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 10:7 Psalm 40:6-8 (see Septuagint)