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Hebrews 10:3-11 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

3. Instead, in these things, a commemoration of sins is made every year.

4. For it is impossible for sins to be taken away by the blood of oxen and goats.

5. For this reason, as Christ enters into the world, he says: "Sacrifice and oblation, you did not want. But you have fashioned a body for me.

6. Holocausts for sin were not pleasing to you.

7. Then I said, 'Behold, I draw near.' At the head of the book, it has been written of me that I should do your will, O God."

8. In the above, by saying, "Sacrifices, and oblations, and holocausts for sin, you did not want, nor are those things pleasing to you, which are offered according to the law;

9. then I said, 'Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,' " he takes away the first, so that he may establish what follows.

10. For by this will, we have been sanctified, through the one time oblation of the body of Jesus Christ.

11. And certainly, every priest stands by, ministering daily, and frequently offering the same sacrifices, which are never able to take away sins.