Hebrews 10:9

and then there is added – ‘See, I have come to do your will.’ The former sacrifices are set aside to be replaced by the latter.

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In The King James Version

Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

In Context

8First come the words – ‘You do not desire, nor do you take pleasure in, sacrifices, offerings, burnt offerings, and sacrifices for sin’ (offerings regularly made under the Law),

10And it is in the fulfillment of the will of God that we have been purified by the sacrifice, once and for all, of the body of Jesus Christ.

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Cross References

Hebrews 8:7If that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion for a second.

Hebrews 10:7So I said, “See, I have come” (as is written of me in the pages of the book), “To do your will, God.”’

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 10:8-19

The Priesthood of Christ. ( a. d. 62.) 7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. 8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; 9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11… Read the whole commentary →

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