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The Book of Hebrews, Chapter 10, Verse 1

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For the law having a shadow of good things to come, [and] not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
King James Version
For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
American Standard Version
Else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins.
New English Translation
Drawing Near to God in Enduring Faith Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,
World English Bible
For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.
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But in those [sacrifices there is] a remembrance again [made] of sins every year.
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For [it is] not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
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Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
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In burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
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Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
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Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and [offering] for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure [therein]; which are offered by the law;
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Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
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By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once [for all].
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And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
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But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;