Moffatt(i)
1 For as the Law has a mere shadow of the bliss that is to be, instead of representing the reality of that bliss, it never can perfect those who draw near with the same annual sacrifices that are perpetually offered.
2 Otherwise, they would surely have ceased to be offered; for the worshippers, once cleansed, would no longer be conscious of sins!
3 As it is, they are an annual reminder of sins
4 (for the blood of bulls and goats cannot possibly remove sins!).
5 Hence, on entering the world he says, Thou hast no desire for sacrifice or offering; it is a body thou hast prepared for me —
6 in holocausts and sin-offerings thou takest no delight.
7 So I said, 'Here I come — in the roll of the book this is written of me — I come to do thy will, O God.'
8 He begins by saying, thou hast no desire for, thou takest no delight in, sacrifices and offerings and holocausts and sin-offerings (and these are what are offered in terms of the Law);
9 he then adds, Here I come to do thy will. He does away with the first in order to establish the second.
10 And it is by this will that we are consecrated, because Jesus Christ once for all has offered up his body.
11 Again, while every priest stands daily at his service, offering the same sacrifices repeatedly, sacrifices which never can take sins away —
12 He offered a single sacrifice for sins and then seated himself for all time at the right hand of God,
13 to wait until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet.
14 For by a single offering he has made the sanctified perfect for all time.
15 Besides, we have the testimony of the holy Spirit; for after saying,
16 This is the covenant I will make with them when that day comes, saith the Lord, I will set my laws upon their hearts, inscribing them upon their minds, he adds,
17 And their sins and breaches of the law I will remember no more.
18 Now where these are remitted, an offering for sin exists no longer.