Therefore, as he was coming into the world, he said:

You did not desire sacrifice and offering,
but you prepared a body for me.
You did not delight
in whole burnt offerings and sin offerings.
Then I said, “See—
it is written about me
in the scroll—
I have come to do your will, God.”[a](A)

After he says above, You did not desire or delight in sacrifices and offerings, whole burnt offerings and sin offerings (which are offered according to the law(B)), he then says, See, I have come to do your will.[b] He takes away the first to establish the second. 10 By this will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 10:5–7 Ps 40:6–8
  2. 10:9 Other mss add God

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