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.