1 For the law, being only a reflection of the blessings to come and not their substance, can never, by the same sacrifices repeatedly offered year after year, make those who come near perfect.
2 Otherwise, would they not have stopped offering them, because the worshipers, cleansed once for all, would no longer be aware of any sins?
3 Instead, through those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year,
4 for it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.