Christ's Sacrifice Once for All

10 Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of those things, [fn]the same sacrifices offered year after year can never perfect those who draw near to worship. 2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once and for all, and would no longer have any consciousness of their sins? 3 But year after year they are reminded of their sins by these sacrifices. 4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said,

“Sacrifice and offering yoʋ did not desire,

but a body yoʋ prepared for me;

6 in whole burnt offerings and sin offerings

yoʋ took no pleasure.

7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do yoʋr will, O God,

as it is written about me in the scroll of the book.’ ”

8 In the passage above he says, “[fn]Sacrifice and offering, and whole burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor did you take pleasure in them” (although they are offered according to the law), 9 Then he adds, “Behold, I have come to do yoʋr [fn]will, O God.” He takes away the first in order to establish the second. 10 By God's will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

11 Now every priest stands daily at service, offering again and again the same sacrifices that can never take away sins. 12 But when Christ had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, 13 where he is now waiting until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet. 14 For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says,

16 “This is the covenant I will make with them

after those days, says the Lord:

I will put my laws on their hearts

and write them on their minds.”

17 Then he adds,

“Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”

18 Now where there is remission of these, an offering for sin is no longer needed.