^{1 Ref} For the law having a shadow of the coming good things -- not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near,

^{2 Ref} since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified?

^{3 Ref} but in those `sacrifices' is a remembrance of sins every year,

^{4 Ref} for it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

^{5 Ref} Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, `Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not will, and a body Thou didst prepare for me,

^{1 Ref} For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean.

^{2 Ref} For if this had been possible, would there not have been an end of those offerings, because the worshippers would have been made completely clean and would have been no longer conscious of sins?

^{3 Ref} But year by year there is a memory of sins in those offerings.

^{4 Ref} Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins.

^{5 Ref} So that when he comes into the world, he says, You had no desire for offerings, but you made a body ready for me;