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For The Law Could Never Take Away Sins, So Jesus Came To Offer His Body

10 For the Law— having a shadow of the coming good things, not the very image[a] of the things— is never able to perfect the ones approaching yearly with the same sacrifices which they offer perpetually[b]. Otherwise would they not have ceased being offered, because of the ones worshiping no longer having a consciousness of sins, having been cleansed once-for-all?

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 10:1 Or, likeness, form.
  2. Hebrews 10:1 Or, continually. That is, year after year.

Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All

10 The law is only a shadow(A) of the good things(B) that are coming—not the realities themselves.(C) For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect(D) those who draw near to worship.(E) Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins.(F)

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