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Hebrews - ch 10 v 1 - 20
- For the law having a shadow of the good `things' to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh.
- Else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins.
- But in those `sacrifices' there is a remembrance made of sins year by year.
- For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
- Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, But a body didst thou prepare for me;
- In whole burnt offerings and `sacrifices' for sin thou hadst no pleasure:
- Then said I, Lo, I am come (In the roll of the book it is written of me) To do thy will, O God.
- Saying above, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and `sacrifices' for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein (the which are offered according to the law),
- then hath he said, Lo, I am come to do thy will. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
- By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
- And every priest indeed standeth day by day ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, the which can never take away sins:
- but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
- henceforth expecting till his enemies be made the footstool of his feet.
- For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
- And the Holy Spirit also beareth witness to us; for after he hath said,
- This is the covenant that I will make with them After those days, saith the Lord: I will put my laws on their heart, And upon their mind also will I write them; `then saith he,'
- And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
- Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
- Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
- by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
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