Hebrews 10:9

He then adds, "I have come to do Thy will." He does away with the first in order to establish the second.

Weymouth NT (1912)

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

8After saying the words I have just quoted, "Sacrifices and offerings or whole burnt-offerings and sin-offerings Thou hast not desired or taken pleasure in" --all such being offered in obedience to the Law--

10It is through that divine will that we have been set free from sin, through the offering of Jesus Christ as our sacrifice once for all.

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Cross References

Hebrews 8:7For if that first Covenant had been free from imperfection, there would have been no attempt to introduce another.

Hebrews 10:7Then I said, `I have come--in the roll of the book it is written concerning Me--to do Thy will, O 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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