May 26, 2026

Heb 10:1  The law gave us only an unclear picture of the good things coming in the future. The law is not a perfect picture of the real things. The law tells people to offer the same sacrifices every year. Those who come to worship God continue to offer those sacrifices. But the law can never make them perfect. 

Heb 10:2  If the law could make people perfect, those sacrifices would have already stopped. They would already be clean from their sins, and they would not still feel guilty. 

Heb 10:3  But that's not what happens. Their sacrifices make them remember their sins every year, 

Heb 10:4  because it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 

Heb 10:5  So when Christ came into the world he said, "You don't want sacrifices and offerings, but you have prepared a body for me. 

Heb 10:6  You are not pleased with the sacrifices of animals killed and burned or with offerings to take away sins. 

Heb 10:7  Then I said, 'Here I am, God. It is written about me in the book of the law. I have come to do what you want.'" 

Heb 10:8  Christ first said, "You don't want sacrifices and offerings. You are not pleased with animals killed and burned or with sacrifices to take away sin." (These are all sacrifices that the law commands.) 

Heb 10:9  Then he said, "Here I am, God. I have come to do what you want." So God ends that first system of sacrifices and starts his new way.