Sacrifice or oblation you wished not,
but ears open to obedience you gave me.
Holocaust or sin-offerings you sought not;
then said I, “Behold I come.
In the written scroll it is prescribed for me,
to do your will, O my God, is my delight,
and your law is within my heart!”
Psalm 40:7-9
ONE SACRIFICE INSTEAD OF MANY
Hebrews 10:4-10
4 It is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats take away sins.
5 For this reason, when Christ came into the world, he said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me;
6 in holocausts and sin offerings you took no delight in.
7 Then I said, ‘As is written of me in the scroll, Behold, I come to do your will, O God.’ ”
8 First he says, “Sacrifices and offerings, holocausts and sin offerings, you neither desired nor delighted in.” These are offered according to the law.
9 Then he says, “Behold, I come to do your will.” He takes away the first to establish the second.
10 By this “will,” we have been consecrated through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
