1. For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the ones approaching perfect.
2. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshipers once purged should have had no more consciousness of sins.
3. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
4. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
5. Therefore when he comes into the world, he says,
6. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have had no pleasure.
7. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do your will, O God.
8. Above when he said,
9. Then said he,
10. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11. And every priest stands daily ministering and offering frequently the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
12. But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;
13. From then on waiting till his enemies be made his footstool.
14. For by one offering he has perfected forever them that are sanctified.
15. The Holy Spirit also is a witness to us: for after this he had said before,