A Life of Holy Devotion

Christ's Sacrifice Once for All

¹For since the law has but va shadow wof the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, xit can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. ²Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? ³But yin these sacrifices zthere is a reminder of sins every year. ⁴For ait is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

⁵Consequently, bwhen Christ1 came into the world, he said,

c“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,

but a body have you prepared for me;

⁶in burnt offerings and sin offerings

you have taken no pleasure.

⁷Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,

as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”

⁸When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in csacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), ⁹then he added, d“Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. ¹⁰And by that will ewe have been sanctified through the offering of fthe body of Jesus Christ gonce for all.

¹¹And every priest stands hdaily at his service, ioffering repeatedly the same sacrifices, jwhich can never take away sins. ¹²But when Christ2 had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he ksat down at the right hand of God, ¹³waiting from that time luntil his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. ¹⁴For by a single offering mhe has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

¹⁵And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,

¹⁶n“This is the covenant that I will make with them

after those days, declares the Lord:

I will put my laws on their hearts,

and write them on their minds,”

¹⁷then he adds,

o“I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”

¹⁸Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.