an never make the comers thereunto perfect.

10:2. For then they would have ceased to be offered: because the
worshippers once cleansed should have no conscience of sin any longer.

They would have ceased... If they had been of themselves perfect to all
the intents of redemption and remission, as Christ's death is there
would have been no occasion of so often repeating them: as there is no
occasion for Christ's dying any more for our sins.

10:3. But in them there is made a commemoration of sins every year:

10:4. For it is impossible that with the blood of oxen and goats sin
should be taken away.

10:5. Wherefore, when he cometh into the world he saith: Sacrifice and
oblation thou wouldest not: but a body thou hast fitted to me.

10:6. Holocausts for sin did not please thee.

10:7. Then said I: Behold I come: in the head of the book it is written
of me: that I should do thy will, O God.

10:8. In saying before, Sacrifices, and oblations, and holocausts for
sin thou wouldest not, neither are they pleasing to thee, which are
offered according to the law.

10:9. Then said I: Behold, I come to do thy will, O God: He taketh away
the first, that he may establish that which followeth.

10:10. In the which will, we are sanctified by the oblation of the body
of Jesus Christ once.

10:11. And every priest indeed standeth daily ministering and often
offering the same sacrifices which can never take away sins.

10:12. But this man, offering one sacrifice for sins, for ever sitteth
on the right hand of God,

10:13. From henceforth expecting until his enemies be made his
footstool.

10:14. For by one oblation he hath perfected for ever them that are
sanctified.

10:15. And the Holy Ghost also doth testify this to us. For after that
he said:

10:16. And this is the testament which I will make unto them after those
days, saith the Lord. I will give my laws in their hearts and on their
minds will I write them:

10:17. And their sins and iniquities I will remember no more.

10:18. Now, where there is a remission of these, there is no more an
oblation for sin.

There is no more an oblation for sin... Where there is a full remission
of sins, as in baptism, there is no more occasion for a sin offering to
be made for such sins already remitted; and as for sins committed
afterwards, they can only be remitted in virtue of the one oblation of
Christ's death.

10:19. Having therefore, brethren, a confidence in the ente