Morning Prayer

Hebrews 10:1-101 So, since the Law contains no more than a reflection of the good things which were still to come, and no true image of them, it is quite incapable of bringing the worshippers to perfection, by means of the same sacrifices repeatedly offered year after year.2 Otherwise, surely the offering of them would have stopped, because the worshippers, when they had been purified once, would have no awareness of sins.3 But in fact the sins are recalled year after year in the sacrifices.4 Bulls' blood and goats' blood are incapable of taking away sins,5 and that is why he said, on coming into the world: You wanted no sacrifice or cereal offering, but you gave me a body.6 You took no pleasure in burnt offering or sacrifice for sin;7 then I said, 'Here I am, I am coming,' in the scroll of the book it is written of me, to do your will, God.8 He says first You did not want what the Law lays down as the things to be offered, that is: the sacrifices, the cereal offerings, the burnt offerings and the sacrifices for sin, and you took no pleasure in them;9 and then he says: Here I am! I am coming to do your will. He is abolishing the first sort to establish the second.10 And this will was for us to be made holy by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ made once and for all.