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Hebrews - ch 10 v 1 - 20
- 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;
- by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
- And every priest stands daily ministering, and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
- But he, having offered one sacrifice for sins, sat down in perpetuity at the right hand of God,
- waiting from henceforth until his enemies be set for the footstool of his feet.
- For by one offering he has perfected in perpetuity the sanctified.
- And the Holy Spirit also bears us witness of it; for after what was said:
- This is the covenant which I will establish towards them after those days, saith the Lord: Giving my laws into their hearts, I will write them also in their understandings;
- and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more.
- But where there is remission of these, there is no longer a sacrifice for sin.
- Having therefore, brethren, boldness for entering into the holy of holies by the blood of Jesus,
- the new and living way which he has dedicated for us through the veil, that is, his flesh,
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