1 For the law, having a ashadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, bcan never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect.
2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once1 purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins.
3 But in those sacrificesthereis a reminder of sins every year.
4 For aitis not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.
Christ’s Death Fulfills God’s Will
5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: a“Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You have prepared for Me.
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure.
7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come— In the volume of the book it is written of Me— To do Your will, O God.’ ”
8 Previously saying, “Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure inthem” (which are offered according to the law),
9 then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will,1 O God.” He takes away the first that He may establish the second.
10aBy that will we have been1 sanctified bthrough the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once forall.
Christ’s Death Perfects the Sanctified
11 And every priest stands aministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
12aBut this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down bat the right hand of God,
Would they not have ceased to be offered? - Had they made an effectual reconciliation for the sins of the world, and contained in their once offering a plenitude of permanent merit, they would have ceased to be offered, at least in reference to any individual who had once offered them; because, in such a case, his conscience would be satisfied that its guilt had been taken away. But no Jew pretended to believe that even the annual atonement cancelled his sin before God; yet he continued to make his offerings, the law of God having so enjoined, because these sacrifices pointed out that which was to come. They were offered, therefore, not in consideration of their own efficacy, but as referring to Christ; See on Hebrews 9:9 (note).
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