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1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come , and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect .
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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.
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2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered ? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
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2 If it could, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins.
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3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
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3 But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins,
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4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
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4 because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
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5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith , Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
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5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me;
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6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure .
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6 with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased.
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7 Then said I , Lo , I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
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7 Then I said, 'Here I am--it is written about me in the scroll-- I have come to do your will, O God.' "
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8 Above when he said , Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
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8 First he said, "Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them" (although the law required them to be made).
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9 Then said he , Lo , I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
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9 Then he said, "Here I am, I have come to do your will." He sets aside the first to establish the second.
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10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
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10 And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
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