1. The Law is a shadow of the good things that are coming, not the real things themselves. It never can perfect the ones who are trying to draw near to God through the same sacrifices that are offered continually every year.
2. Otherwise, wouldn’t they have stopped being offered? If the people carrying out their religious duties had been completely cleansed once, no one would have been aware of sin anymore.
3. Instead, these sacrifices are a reminder of sin every year,
4. because it’s impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5. Therefore, when he comes into the world he says, You didn’t want a sacrifice or an offering, but you prepared a body for me;
6. you weren’t pleased with entirely burned offerings or a sin offering.
7. So then I said, "Look, I’ve come to do your will, God. This has been written about me in the scroll."
8. He says above, You didn’t want and you weren’t pleased with a sacrifice or an offering or with entirely burned offerings or a purification offering, which are offered because the Law requires them.
9. Then he said, Look, I’ve come to do your will. He puts an end to the first to establish the second.