Hebrews 10:1-12

Murdock(i) 1 For in the law there was a shadow of the good things to come; not the substance of the things themselves. Therefore, although the same sacrifices were every year offered, they could never perfect those who offered them. 2 For, if they had perfected them, they would long ago have desisted from their offerings; because their conscience could no more disquiet them, who were once purified, on account of their sins. 3 But in those sacrifices, they every year recognized their sins. 4 For the blood of bulls and of goats cannot purge away sins. 5 Therefore, when entering the world, he said: In sacrifices and oblations, thou hast not had pleasure; but thou hast clothed me with a body. 6 And holocausts on account of sins, thou hast not asked. 7 Then I said: Behold I come, as it is written of me in the beginning of the books, to do thy pleasure, O God. 8 He first said: Sacrifices and oblations and holocausts for sins, which were offered according to the law, thou desiredst not; 9 and afterwards he said: Behold I come to do thy pleasure, O God: hereby, he abolished the former, that he might establish the latter. 10 For by this his pleasure, we are sanctified; through the offering of the body of Jesus the Messiah a single time. 11 For every high priest who stood and ministered daily, offered again and again the same sacrifices, which never were sufficient to purge away sins. 12 But this Priest offered one sacrifice for sins, and for ever sat down at the right hand of God;