freedom from sin to those who draw near.
010:002 For then would not the sacrifices have ceased to be offered,
because the consciences of the worshippers--who in that case
would now have been cleansed once for all--would no longer
be burdened with sins?
010:003 But in those sacrifices sins are recalled to memory year after year.
010:004 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to
take away sins.
010:005 That is why, when He comes into the world, He says,
"Sacrifice and offering Thou has not desired, but a body Thou
hast prepared for Me.
010:006 In whole burnt-offerings and in sin-offerings Thou hast
taken no pleasure.
010:007 Then I said, `I have come--in the roll of the book it is written
concerning Me--to do Thy will, O God.'"
010:008 After saying the words I have just quoted, "Sacrifices and
offerings or whole burnt-offerings and sin-offerings Thou hast
not desired or taken pleasure in"--all such being offered
in obedience to the Law--
010:009 He then adds, "I have come to do Thy will." He does away
with the first in order to establish the second.
010:010 It is through that divine will that we have been set free
from sin, through the offering of Jesus Christ as our sacrifice
once for all.
010:011 And while every priest stands ministering, day after day,
and constantly offering the same sacrifices--though such can
never rid us of our sins--
010:012 this Priest, on the contrary, after offering for sins
a single sacrifice of perpetual efficacy, took His seat
at God's right hand,