1. For the Torah, having a shadow of the good matters to come, and not the image itself of the matters, was never able to make perfect those who draw near with the same slaughter offerings which they offer continually year by year.
2. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered? Because those who served, once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins.
3. But in those offerings is a reminder of sins year by year.
4. For it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5. Therefore, coming into the world, He says, “Slaughtering and meal offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me.