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The old plan was only a hint of the good things in the new plan. Since that old "law plan" wasn't complete in itself, it couldn't complete those who followed it. No matter how many sacrifices were offered year after year, they never added up to a complete solution.

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The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming--not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.

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For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect.

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The old system in the law of Moses was only a shadow of the things to come, not the reality of the good things Christ has done for us. The sacrifices under the old system were repeated again and again, year after year, but they were never able to provide perfect cleansing for those who came to worship.

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If they had, the worshipers would have gone merrily on their way, no longer dragged down by their sins.

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If it could, 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.

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For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins.

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If they could have provided perfect cleansing, the sacrifices would have stopped, for the worshipers would have been purified once for all time, and their feelings of guilt would have disappeared.

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But instead of removing awareness of sin, when those animal sacrifices were repeated over and over they actually heightened awareness and guilt.

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But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins,

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But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.

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But just the opposite happened. Those yearly sacrifices reminded them of their sins year after year.

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The plain fact is that bull and goat blood can't get rid of sin.

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because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

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For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.

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For it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

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That is what is meant by this prophecy, put in the mouth of Christ: You don't want sacrifices and offerings year after year; you've prepared a body for me for a sacrifice.

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Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me;

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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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That is why Christ, when he came into the world, said, "You did not want animal sacrifices and grain offerings. But you have given me a body so that I may obey you.

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It's not fragrance and smoke from the altar that whet your appetite.

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with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased.

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In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure.

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No, you were not pleased with animals burned on the altar or with other offerings for sin.

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So I said, "I'm here to do it your way, O God, the way it's described in your Book."

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Then I said, 'Here I am--it is written about me in the scroll--I have come to do your will, O God.'"

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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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Then I said, 'Look, I have come to do your will, O God--just as it is written about me in the Scriptures.'"

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When he said, "You don't want sacrifices and offerings," he was referring to practices according to the old plan.

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First he said, "Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them" (although the law required them to be made).

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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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Christ said, "You did not want animal sacrifices or grain offerings or animals burned on the altar or other offerings for sin, nor were you pleased with them" (though they are required by the law of Moses).

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When he added, "I'm here to do it your way," he set aside the first in order to enact the new plan--

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Then he said, "Here I am, I have come to do your will." He sets aside the first to establish the second.

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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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Then he added, "Look, I have come to do your will." He cancels the first covenant in order to establish the second.

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God's way--by which we are made fit for God by the once-for-all sacrifice of Jesus.

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And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

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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 what God wants is for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time.

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Every priest goes to work at the altar each day, offers the same old sacrifices year in, year out, and never makes a dent in the sin problem.

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Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

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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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Under the old covenant, the priest stands before the altar day after day, offering sacrifices that can never take away sins.

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As a priest, Christ made a single sacrifice for sins, and that was it! Then he sat down right beside God

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But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God.

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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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But our High Priest offered himself to God as one sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then he sat down at the place of highest honor at God's right hand.

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and waited for his enemies to cave in.

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Since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool,

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from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool.

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There he waits until his enemies are humbled as a footstool under his feet.

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It was a perfect sacrifice by a perfect person to perfect some very imperfect people. By that single offering, he did everything that needed to be done for everyone who takes part in the purifying process.

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because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.

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For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

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For by that one offering he perfected forever all those whom he is making holy.

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The Holy Spirit confirms this:

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The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says:

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But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before,

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And the Holy Spirit also testifies that this is so. First he says,

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This new plan I'm making with Israel isn't going to be written on paper, isn't going to be chiseled in stone; This time "I'm writing out the plan in them, carving it on the lining of their hearts."

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"This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds."

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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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"This is the new covenant I will make with my people on that day, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts so they will understand them, and I will write them on their minds so they will obey them."

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He concludes, I'll forever wipe the slate clean of their sins.

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Then he adds: "Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more."

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then He adds, "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."

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Then he adds, "I will never again remember their sins and lawless deeds."

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Once sins are taken care of for good, there's no longer any need to offer sacrifices for them.

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And where these have been forgiven, there is no longer any sacrifice for sin.

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Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.

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Now when sins have been forgiven, there is no need to offer any more sacrifices.