Therefore when he comes into the world, he says,
“You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering,
but you prepared a body for me.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Hebrews 10:5 in context
Hebrews 10:2–8
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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?
3
But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins.
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For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
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Therefore when he comes into the world, he says,
“You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering,
but you prepared a body for me.
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You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.
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Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me)
to do your will, O God.’”
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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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