1. For the law having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things, they can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh.
2. Else would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more conscience of sins?
3. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance made of sins year by year.
4. For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
5. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, But a body didst thou prepare for me;
6. In whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hadst no pleasure:
7. Then said I, Lo, I am come (In the roll of the book it is written of me) To do thy will, O God.