Hebrews 10:7-18

7Then I said, ‘I have come! (It is written about me in the scroll of the book.) I have come to do what you want, my God.’ ”

8In this passage Christ first said, “You did not want sacrifices, offerings, burnt offerings, and sacrifices for sin. You did not approve of them.” (These are the sacrifices that Moses’ Teachings require people to offer.)

9Then Christ says, “I have come to do what you want.” He did away with sacrifices in order to establish the obedience that God wants.

10We have been set apart as holy because Jesus Christ did what God wanted him to do by sacrificing his body once and for all.

11Every day each priest performed his religious duty. He offered the same type of sacrifice again and again. Yet, these sacrifices could never take away sins.

12However, this chief priest made one sacrifice for sins, and this sacrifice lasts forever. Now he holds the honored position—the one next to God the Father on the heavenly throne.

13Since that time, he has been waiting for his enemies to be made his footstool.

14With one sacrifice he accomplished the work of setting them apart for God forever.

15The Holy Spirit tells us the same thing:

16“This is the promise  that I will make to them after those days, says the Lord: ‘I will put my teachings in their hearts and write them in their minds.’ ”

17Then he adds, “I will no longer hold their sins and their disobedience against them.”

18When sins are forgiven, there is no longer any need to sacrifice for sins.