1 The law can show only a little about the good things that are coming. It cannot show the good things themselves. People come to worship God. But the law can never make them all right by the same sacrifices that are brought every year.

2 If the law could make people all right, they would stop making sacrifices. The people who come to worship would be made clean for all time, and they would not remember the wrong things they had done.

3 But, by making these sacrifices, they show that they do remember the wrong things they have done.

4 The blood of bulls and goats can never clean wrong things from peoples hearts.