1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never make perfect those who come by the same sacrifices which they offer year by year continually. 2 Otherwise, they would cease to offer them, because those that sacrifice, once purged, would have no more conscience of sin. 3 But in these sacrifices each year the same remembrance of sins is made. 4 For the blood of bulls and of goats cannot take away sins.
5 Therefore when he came into the world, he said, Sacrifice and offering thou dost not desire, but a body hast thou prepared me; 6 in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. 7 Then said I, Behold, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do thy will, O God.
8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou dost not desire, neither hadst pleasure therein, which are offered by the law; 9 then he said, Behold, I come to do thy will, O God. He took away the first, that he may establish the second. 10 In this will, we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus, the Christ, once for all.
11 And so every priest stands daily ministering and offering many times the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins, 12 but this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, is seated at the right hand of God, 13 waiting for that which follows, that is, until his enemies are made his footstool. 14 For by one offering he has perfected for ever those that are sanctified.
15 Likewise the Holy Spirit gives us the same witness, who afterwards said,
16 This is the testament that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will give my laws in their hearts, and in their souls will I write them;
17 and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.