Then he said, “Look, I have come to do your will.” He cancels the first covenant in order to put the second into effect.
Parallel translations
- WEB then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,
- KJV Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
- BSB Then He adds, “Here I am, I have come to do Your will.” He takes away the first to establish the second.
- NKJV then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.” He takes away the first that He may establish the second.
- NASB then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will.” He takes away the first in order to establish the second.
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Quick answer
Christ's coming to do God's will sets aside the old system and establishes the new. The shadow gives way to the substance.
Overview
The author draws the conclusion: by declaring his obedience, Christ 'takes away the first' (the sacrificial system) to 'establish the second' (his obedient self-offering and the new covenant). This is a decisive statement of the transition from old to new, accomplished through Christ's obedient will.
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Cross-references · 5
- Heb 7:18–19For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness
- Heb 12:27–28This phrase, “Yet once more”, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.
- Heb 9:11–14But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,
- Heb 10:7Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’”
- Heb 8:7–13For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.
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