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10 For the law, having a shadow of the coming good things, not the image itself of the things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually yearly, perfect those who approach.

Since, would they not indeed have ceased being offered, on account of the worshippers once purged having no longer any conscience of sins?

But in these [there is] a calling to mind of sins yearly.

For blood of bulls and goats [is] incapable of taking away sins.

Wherefore coming into the world he says, Sacrifice and offering thou willedst not; but thou hast prepared me a body.

Thou tookest no pleasure in burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin.

Then I said, Lo, I come (in [the] roll of the book it is written of me) to do, O God, thy will.

Above, saying Sacrifices and offerings and burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou willedst not, neither tookest pleasure in (which are offered according to the law);

then he said, Lo, I come to do thy will. He takes away the first that he may establish the second;

10 by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

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Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All

10 The law is only a shadow(A) of the good things(B) that are coming—not the realities themselves.(C) For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect(D) those who draw near to worship.(E) Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins.(F) But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins.(G) It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats(H) to take away sins.(I)

Therefore, when Christ came into the world,(J) he said:

“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
    but a body you prepared for me;(K)
with burnt offerings and sin offerings
    you were not pleased.
Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll(L)
    I have come to do your will, my God.’”[a](M)

First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them”(N)—though they were offered in accordance with the law. Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.”(O) He sets aside the first to establish the second. 10 And by that will, we have been made holy(P) through the sacrifice of the body(Q) of Jesus Christ once for all.(R)

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 10:7 Psalm 40:6-8 (see Septuagint)