Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins.
as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
“I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.
I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.”
You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.
As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit.
Then he adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”
For it is commendable if someone bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because they are conscious of God.