Old/New Testament

The old law has no power to cleanse away sin, but Christ did it with the offering of his body once and for all. An exhortation to receive this goodness of God thankfully, with patience and steadfast faith.

10 For the law, which has but the shadow of good things to come, and not the real things themselves, can never, with the sacrifices that the priests offer year by year continually, make those who come to it perfect. ² For would not then those sacrifices have ceased to be offered, because the offerers, once purged, would have had no more conscience of sins? ³ But in those sacrifices, mention is made of sins every year. ⁴ For it is impossible that the blood of oxen and of goats should take away sins. ⁵ Therefore when he comes into the world he says: Sacrifice and offering you would not have, but a body you have made ready for me. ⁶ In sacrifices and sin-offerings you have no pleasure. ⁷ Then I said, Lo, I come! In the chief part of the book it is written of me, that I will do your will, O God.

⁸ Above – when he said sacrifice and offering, and burnt sacrifices and sin-offerings you would not have, neither have accepted (which yet are offered according to the law), ⁹ and then said, Lo, I come to do your will, O God – he takes away the first in order to establish the latter. ¹⁰ In accordance with this God’s will, we are sanctified by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all.

¹¹ And every priest is ready daily ministering, and repeatedly offers one manner of offering that can never take away sins. ¹² But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, sat down forever on the right hand of God, ¹³ and from henceforth waits till his enemies be made his footstool. ¹⁴ For with one offering, he has made perfect forever those who are sanctified.

¹⁵ And the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us of this, namely when he foretold: ¹⁶ This is the testament that I will make unto them after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts, and in their mind I will write them, ¹⁷ and their sins and iniquities I will remember no more.

¹⁸ Now where there is remission of these things, there is no more offering for sin.