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So when Christ came into the world, he said:

“You do not want sacrifices and offerings,
    but you have prepared a body for me.
You do not ask for burnt offerings
    and offerings to take away sins.
Then I said, ‘Look, I have come.
    It is written about me in the book.
    God, I have come to do what you want.’” Psalm 40:6–8

In this Scripture he first said, “You do not want sacrifices and offerings. You do not ask for burnt offerings and offerings to take away sins.” (These are all sacrifices that the law commands.) Then he said, “Look, I have come to do what you want.” God ends the first system of sacrifices so he can set up the new system. 10 And because of this, we are made holy through the sacrifice Christ made in his body once and for all time.

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