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One Sacrifice for Sins. That is why, when Christ came into the world, he said,

“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
    but a body you have prepared for me.
You took no delight
    in holocausts and sin offerings.
Then I said, ‘As it is written of me in the scroll,
    behold, I have come to do your will, O God.’ ”

First he says, “Sacrifices and offerings, holocausts and sin offerings, you neither desired nor delighted in,” even though they are offered according to the Law. Then he adds, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He thus abolishes the first to establish the second. 10 And it was by this “will” that we have been consecrated through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

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