⚓WEB · Hebrews 10:9
What does Hebrews 10:9 mean?
"then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,"
— Hebrews 10:9 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
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),
then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,
by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,
but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;
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