10 For since the law has but v a shadow w of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, x it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. 2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? 3 But y in these sacrifices z there is a reminder of sins every year. 4 For a it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5 Consequently, b when Christ [1] came into the world, he said,
c “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,
but a body have you prepared for me;
6 in burnt offerings and sin offerings
you have taken no pleasure.
7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,
as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”
8 When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in c sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), 9 then he added, d “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. 10 And by that will e we have been sanctified through the offering of f the body of Jesus Christ g once for all.
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