⚓WEB · Hebrews 10:5
What does Hebrews 10:5 mean?
"Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire, but you prepared a body for me."
— Hebrews 10:5 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?
But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins.
For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire, but you prepared a body for me.
You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.
Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’”
Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in them” (those which are offered according to the law),
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