Hebrews 10:1-11

1For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.

2For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once for all and so have no further consciousness of sin?

3But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year.

4For the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sins.

5So when he came into the world, he said, “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.

6“Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no delight in.

7“Then I said, ‘Here I am: I have come – it is written of me in the scroll of the book – to do your will, O God.’”

8When he says above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them” (which are offered according to the law),

9then he says, “Here I am: I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first to establish the second.

10By his will we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

11And every priest stands day after day serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again – sacrifices that can never take away sins.