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Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All

10 For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices which are continually offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near.[a] Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered? If the worshipers had once been cleansed, they would no longer have any consciousness of sin.

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Footnotes

  1. 10.1ff The sacrifices of the old law, being imperfect, were repeated and did at least keep alive a sense of sin. Contrast with Christ’s sacrifice (verse 14).

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