Romans 10:4
4For aChrist is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. ▼▼Or end of the law, that everyone who believes may be justified
Colossians 2:17
17 cThese are a shadow of the things to come, but dthe substance belongs to Christ.Hebrews 7:18-19
18For on the one hand, a former commandment is set aside ebecause of its weakness and uselessness 19(for fthe law made nothing perfect); but on the other hand, ga better hope is introduced, through which hwe draw near to God.Hebrews 9:8-16
8By this the Holy Spirit indicates that ithe way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing 9(which is symbolic for the present age). ▼▼Or which is symbolic for the age then present
According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered kthat cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper, 10but deal only with lfood and drink and mvarious washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation. Redemption Through the Blood of Christ
11But when Christ appeared as a high priest nof the good things that have come, ▼▼Some manuscripts good things to come
then through pthe greater and more perfect tent ( qnot made with hands, that is, not of this creation) 12he rentered sonce for all into the holy places, not by means of tthe blood of goats and calves but uby means of his own blood, vthus securing an eternal redemption. 13For if wthe blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with xthe ashes of a heifer, sanctify ▼▼Or For if the sprinkling of defiled persons with the blood of goats and bulls and with the ashes of a heifer sanctifies
for the purification of the flesh, 14how much more will zthe blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit aaoffered himself without blemish to God, abpurify our ▼▼Some manuscripts your
conscience adfrom dead works aeto serve the living God. 15Therefore he is afthe mediator of a new covenant, so that agthose who are called may ahreceive the promised eternal inheritance, aisince a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant. ▼
▼The Greek word means both covenant and will; also verses 16, 17
16For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established. Hebrews 10:1-14
Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All
1For since the law has but aka shadow alof the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, amit can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. 2Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? 3But anin these sacrifices aothere is a reminder of sins every year. 4For apit is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.5Consequently, aqwhen Christ ▼
▼Greek he
came into the world, he said, as“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,
but a body have you prepared for me;
6in burnt offerings and sin offerings
you have taken no pleasure.
7Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,
as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”
8When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in atsacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), 9then he added, au“Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. 10And by that will avwe have been sanctified through the offering of awthe body of Jesus Christ axonce for all.
11And every priest stands aydaily at his service, azoffering repeatedly the same sacrifices, bawhich can never take away sins. 12But when Christ ▼
▼Greek this one
had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he bcsat down at the right hand of God, 13waiting from that time bduntil his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. 14For by a single offering behe has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
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