4. for it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats take away sins.
5. For this reason, when he came into the world, he said:“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,but a body you prepared for me;
6. holocausts and sin offerings you took no delight in.
7. Then I said, ‘As is written of me in the scroll,Behold, I come to do your will, O God.’”
8. First he says, “Sacrifices and offerings, holocausts and sin offerings, you neither desired nor delighted in.” These are offered according to the law.
9. Then he says, “Behold, I come to do your will.” He takes away the first to establish the second.
10. By this “will,” we have been consecrated through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11. Every priest stands daily at his ministry, offering frequently those same sacrifices that can never take away sins.
12. But this one offered one sacrifice for sins, and took his seat forever at the right hand of God;
13. now he waits until his enemies are made his footstool.
14. For by one offering he has made perfect forever those who are being consecrated.
15. The holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying:
16. “This is the covenant I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord:‘I will put my laws in their hearts,and I will write them upon their minds,’”
17. he also says:“Their sins and their evildoingI will remember no more.”
18. Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer offering for sin.
19. Therefore, brothers, since through the blood of Jesus we have confidence of entrance into the sanctuary
20. by the new and living way he opened for us through the veil, that is, his flesh,
21. and since we have “a great priest over the house of God,”
22. let us approach with a sincere heart and in absolute trust, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.
23. Let us hold unwaveringly to our confession that gives us hope, for he who made the promise is trustworthy.