Hebrews 10:5-25

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.

12But when this priest had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right hand of God,

13where he is now waiting until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet.

14For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy.

15And the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us, for after saying,

16“This is the covenant that I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws on their hearts and I will inscribe them on their minds,”

17then he says, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no longer.”

18Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.

19Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,

20by the fresh and living way that he inaugurated for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,

21and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

22let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings, because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.

23And let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we confess, for the one who made the promise is trustworthy.

24And let us take thought of how to spur one another on to love and good works,

25not abandoning our own meetings, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and even more so because you see the day drawing near.