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Hebrews 10:4-16 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

4. For it is impossible that with the blood of oxen and goats sin should be taken away.

5. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith: Sacrifice and oblation thou wouldest not: but a body thou hast fitted to me:

6. Holocausts for sin did not please thee.

7. Then said I: Behold I come: in the head of the book it is written of me: that I should do thy will, O God.

8. In saying before, Sacrifices, and oblations, and holocausts for sin thou wouldest not, neither are they pleasing to thee, which are offered according to the law.

9. Then said I: Behold, I come to do thy will, O God: he taketh away the first, that he may establish that which followeth.

10. In the which will, we are sanctified by the oblation of the body of Jesus Christ once.

11. And every priest indeed standeth daily ministering, and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

12. But this man offering one sacrifice for sins, for ever sitteth on the right hand of God,

13. From henceforth expecting, until his enemies be made his footstool.

14. For by one oblation he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

15. And the Holy Ghost also doth testify this to us. For after that he said:

16. And this is the testament which I will make unto them after those days, saith the Lord. I will give my laws in their hearts, and on their minds will I write them:

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