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For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.
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Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You have prepared for Me.
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In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure.
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Then I said, 'Behold, I have come-- In the volume of the book it is written of Me-- To do Your will, O God.' "
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Previously saying, "Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them" (which are offered according to the law),
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then He said, "Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God." He takes away the first that He may establish the second.
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By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
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And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
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But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God,
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from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool.
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For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
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But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before,
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"This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,"
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then He adds, "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."
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Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.
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Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,
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by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh,
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and having a High Priest over the house of God,
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let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
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Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.
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And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works,