Hebrews 10:1

American Standard Version (1901)

For the law having a shadow of the good [things] to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh.

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  • Heb 8:5 : 5 who serve [that which is] a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses is warned [of God] when he is about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern that was showed thee in the mount.
  • Col 2:17 : 17 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.
  • Heb 9:11 : 11 But Christ having come a high priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,
  • Heb 9:23 : 23 It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
  • Heb 7:18-19 : 18 For there is a disannulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness 19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw nigh unto God.
  • Heb 9:8-9 : 8 the Holy Spirit this signifying, that the way into the holy place hath not yet been made manifest, while the first tabernacle is yet standing; 9 which [is] a figure for the time present; according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that cannot, as touching the conscience, make the worshipper perfect,
  • Heb 9:25 : 25 nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place year by year with blood not his own;
  • Heb 10:3-4 : 3 But in those [sacrifices] there is a remembrance made of sins year by year. 4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
  • Heb 10:11-18 : 11 And every priest indeed standeth day by day ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, the which can never take away sins: 12 but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; 13 henceforth expecting till his enemies be made the footstool of his feet. 14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. 15 And the Holy Spirit also beareth witness to us; for after he hath said, 16 This is the covenant that I will make with them After those days, saith the Lord: I will put my laws on their heart, And upon their mind also will I write them; [then saith he] , 17 And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. 18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

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  • Heb 10:2-6
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    2Else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins.

    3But in those [sacrifices] there is a remembrance made of sins year by year.

    4For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

    5Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, But a body didst thou prepare for me;

    6In whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hadst no pleasure:

  • Heb 9:5-13
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    5and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat; of which things we cannot now speak severally.

    6Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services;

    7but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offereth for himself, and for the errors of the people:

    8the Holy Spirit this signifying, that the way into the holy place hath not yet been made manifest, while the first tabernacle is yet standing;

    9which [is] a figure for the time present; according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that cannot, as touching the conscience, make the worshipper perfect,

    10[ being] only (with meats and drinks and divers washings) carnal ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

    11But Christ having come a high priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,

    12nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption.

    13For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling them that have been defiled, sanctify unto the cleanness of the flesh:

  • Heb 7:18-20
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    18For there is a disannulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness

    19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw nigh unto God.

    20And inasmuch as [it is] not without the taking of an oath

  • Heb 10:8-12
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    8Saying above, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein (the which are offered according to the law),

    9then hath he said, Lo, I am come to do thy will. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

    10By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

    11And every priest indeed standeth day by day ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, the which can never take away sins:

    12but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

  • Heb 10:14-15
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    14For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

    15And the Holy Spirit also beareth witness to us; for after he hath said,

  • Heb 9:22-26
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    22And according to the law, I may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

    23It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

    24For Christ entered not into a holy place made with hands, like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:

    25nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place year by year with blood not his own;

    26else must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once at the end of the ages hath he been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

  • Heb 8:4-7
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    4Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are those who offer the gifts according to the law;

    5who serve [that which is] a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses is warned [of God] when he is about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern that was showed thee in the mount.

    6But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises.

    7For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, then would no place have been sought for a second.

  • Heb 7:27-28
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    27who needeth not daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the [sins] of the people: for this he did once for all, when he offered up himself.

    28For the law appointeth men high priests, having infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was after the law, [appointeth] a Son, perfected for evermore.

  • Col 2:17
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    17which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.

  • Heb 10:18-19
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    18Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

    19Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,

  • Heb 7:11-12
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    11Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it hath the people received the law), what further need [was there] that another priest should arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be reckoned after the order of Aaron?

    12For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

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    40God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

  • Heb 13:10
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    10We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat that serve the tabernacle.

  • Heb 8:2
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    2a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

  • Heb 8:13
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    13In that he saith, A new [covenant] he hath made the first old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto vanishing away.

  • 2 Cor 3:10
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    10For verily that which hath been made glorious hath not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasseth.

  • Heb 9:1
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    1Now even a first [covenant] had ordinances of divine service, and its sanctuary, [a sanctuary] of this world.

  • Heb 9:18
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    18Wherefore even the first [covenant] hath not been dedicated without blood.

  • Heb 7:16
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    16who hath been made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life:

  • Lev 16:34
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    34And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make atonement for the children of Israel because of all their sins once in the year. And he did as Jehovah commanded Moses.

  • Heb 10:26
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    26For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins,