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7 Then I said, ‘Look, I have come to do your will, O God— as is written about me in the Scriptures.’”
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Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll— I have come to do your will, my God.’ ”
8 First, Christ said, “You did not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings or burnt offerings or other offerings for sin, nor were you pleased with them” (though they are required by the law of Moses).
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First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them”—though they were offered in accordance with the law.
9 Then he said, “Look, I have come to do your will.” He cancels the first covenant in order to put the second into effect.
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Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second.
10 For God’s will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time.
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And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 Under the old covenant, the priest stands and ministers before the altar day after day, offering the same sacrifices again and again, which can never take away sins.
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Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
12 But our High Priest offered himself to God as a single sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then he sat down in the place of honor at God’s right hand.
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But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,
13 There he waits until his enemies are humbled and made a footstool under his feet.
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and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool.
14 For by that one offering he forever made perfect those who are being made holy.
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For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.
15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies that this is so. For he says,
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The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says:
16 “This is the new covenant I will make with my people on that day, says the LORD : I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.”
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“This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.”
17 Then he says, “I will never again remember their sins and lawless deeds.”
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Then he adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”
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