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.
Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered? Because those who served, once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins.
But in those offerings is a reminder of sins year by year.
For it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
Therefore, coming into the world, He says, “Slaughtering and meal offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me.
“In ascending offerings and offerings for sin You did not delight.
“Then I said, ‘See, I come – in the roll of the book it has been written concerning Me – to do Your desire, O Elohim.’ ”
Saying above, “Slaughter and meal offering, and ascending offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor delighted in,” which are offered according to the Torah,
then He said, “See, I come to do Your desire, O Elohim.” He takes away the first to establish the second.
By that desire we have been set apart through the offering of the body of יהושע Messiah once for all.
And indeed every priest stands day by day doing service, and repeatedly offering the same slaughter offerings which are never able to take away sins.
But He, having offered one slaughter offering for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of Elohim,
waiting from that time onward until His enemies are made a footstool for His feet.
For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are being set apart.
And the Set-apart Spirit also witnesses to us, for after having said before,
“This is the covenant that I shall make with them after those days, says יהוה, giving My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I shall write them,”
and, “Their sins and their lawlessnesses I shall remember no more.”
Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer a slaughter offering for sin.
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