1 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming – not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
2 Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshippers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins.
3 But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins.
4 It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said:‘Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,but a body you prepared for me;
6 with burnt offerings and sin offeringsyou were not pleased.
7 Then I said, “Here I am – it is written about me in the scroll –I have come to do your will, my God.” ’