Heb 10:9 | NETfull | STEP | then he says, “ Here I am: I have come to do your will .” He does away with the first to establish the second.

Hebrews 10:9

9 then he says, “ Here I am: I have come to do your will .” ^{▼▼ The majority of mss, especially the later ones (א² 0278^vid 1739 Maj. lat), have ὁ θεός (ho theos, “God”) at this point, while most of the earliest and best witnesses lack such an explicit addressee (so Ƥ⁴⁶ א* A C D K P Ψ 33 1175 1881 2464 al). The longer reading is a palpable corruption, apparently motivated in part by the wording of Ps 40:8 (39:9 LXX) and by the word order of this same verse as quoted in Heb 10:7.} He does away with ^{▼▼ Or “abolishes.”} the first to establish the second.