Hebrews 10:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean.

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  • Heb 8:5 : 5 Being servants of that which is a copy and an image of the things in heaven, as Moses, when he was about to make the Tent, had special orders from God: for, See, he said, that you make everything like the design which you saw in the mountain.
  • Col 2:17 : 17 For these are an image of the things which are to come; but the body is Christ's.
  • Heb 9:11 : 11 But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world,
  • Heb 9:23 : 23 For this cause it was necessary to make the copies of the things in heaven clean with these offerings; but the things themselves are made clean with better offerings than these.
  • Heb 7:18-19 : 18 So the law which went before is put on one side, because it was feeble and without profit. 19 (Because the law made nothing complete), and in its place there is a better hope, through which we come near to God.
  • Heb 9:8-9 : 8 The Holy Spirit witnessing by this that the way into the holy place had not at that time been made open, while the first Tent was still in being; 9 And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean,
  • Heb 9:25 : 25 And he did not have to make an offering of himself again and again, as the high priest goes into the holy place every year with blood which is not his;
  • Heb 10:3-4 : 3 But year by year there is a memory of sins in those offerings. 4 Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins.
  • Heb 10:11-18 : 11 And every priest takes his place at the altar day by day, doing what is necessary, and making again and again the same offerings which are never able to take away sins. 12 But when Jesus had made one offering for sins for ever, he took his place at the right hand of God; 13 And has been waiting there from that time, till all who are against him are made a foot-rest for his feet. 14 Because by one offering he has made complete for ever those who are made holy. 15 And the Holy Spirit is a witness for us: for after he had said, 16 This is the agreement which I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws in their hearts, writing them in their minds; he said, 17 And I will keep no more memory of their sins and of their evil-doings. 18 Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no more offering for sin.

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  • Heb 10:2-6
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    2For if this had been possible, would there not have been an end of those offerings, because the worshippers would have been made completely clean and would have been no longer conscious of sins?

    3But year by year there is a memory of sins in those offerings.

    4Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins.

    5So that when he comes into the world, he says, You had no desire for offerings, but you made a body ready for me;

    6You had no joy in burned offerings or in offerings for sin.

  • Heb 9:5-13
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    5And over it were the winged ones of glory with their wings covering the mercy-seat; about which it is not possible now to say anything in detail.

    6Now while these things were in existence, the priests went into the first Tent at all times, for prayer and the making of offerings.

    7But only the high priest went into the second, once a year, not without making an offering of blood for himself and for the errors of the people:

    8The Holy Spirit witnessing by this that the way into the holy place had not at that time been made open, while the first Tent was still in being;

    9And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean,

    10Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.

    11But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world,

    12And has gone once and for ever into the holy place, having got eternal salvation, not through the blood of goats and young oxen, but through his blood.

    13For if the blood of goats and oxen, and the dust from the burning of a young cow, being put on the unclean, make the flesh clean:

  • Heb 7:18-20
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    18So the law which went before is put on one side, because it was feeble and without profit.

    19(Because the law made nothing complete), and in its place there is a better hope, through which we come near to God.

    20And as this is not without the taking of an oath

  • Heb 10:8-12
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    8After saying, You had no desire for offerings, for burned offerings or offerings for sin (which are made by the law) and you had no pleasure in them,

    9Then he said, See, I have come to do your pleasure. He took away the old order, so that he might put the new order in its place.

    10By that pleasure we have been made holy, by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for ever.

    11And every priest takes his place at the altar day by day, doing what is necessary, and making again and again the same offerings which are never able to take away sins.

    12But when Jesus had made one offering for sins for ever, he took his place at the right hand of God;

  • Heb 10:14-15
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    14Because by one offering he has made complete for ever those who are made holy.

    15And the Holy Spirit is a witness for us: for after he had said,

  • Heb 9:22-26
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    22And by the law almost all things are made clean with blood, and without blood there is no forgiveness.

    23For this cause it was necessary to make the copies of the things in heaven clean with these offerings; but the things themselves are made clean with better offerings than these.

    24For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us.

    25And he did not have to make an offering of himself again and again, as the high priest goes into the holy place every year with blood which is not his;

    26For then he would have undergone a number of deaths from the time of the making of the world: but now he has come to us at the end of the old order, to put away sin by the offering of himself.

  • Heb 8:4-7
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    4If he had been on earth he would not have been a priest at all, because there are other priests who make the offerings ordered by the law;

    5Being servants of that which is a copy and an image of the things in heaven, as Moses, when he was about to make the Tent, had special orders from God: for, See, he said, that you make everything like the design which you saw in the mountain.

    6But now his position as priest is higher. because through him God has made a better agreement with man, based on the giving of better things.

    7For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second.

  • Heb 7:27-28
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    27Who has no need to make offerings for sins every day, like those high priests, first for himself, and then for the people; because he did this once and for ever when he made an offering of himself.

    28The law makes high priests of men who are feeble; but the word of the oath, which was made after the law, gives that position to a Son, in whom all good is for ever complete.

  • Col 2:17
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    17For these are an image of the things which are to come; but the body is Christ's.

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

    19So then, my brothers, being able to go into the holy place without fear, because of the blood of Jesus,

  • Heb 7:11-12
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    11Now if it was possible for things to be made complete through the priests of the house of Levi (for the law was given to the people in connection with them), what need was there for another priest who was of the order of Melchizedek and not of the order of Aaron?

    12Because if the priests are changed, it is necessary to make a change in the law.

  • Heb 11:40
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    40Because God had kept some better thing for us, so that it was not possible for them to become complete without us.

  • Heb 13:10
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    10We have an altar from which those priests who are servants in the Tent may not take food.

  • Heb 8:2
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    2As a servant of the holy things and of the true Tent, which was put up by God, not by man.

  • Heb 8:13
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    13When he says, A new agreement, he has made the first agreement old. But anything which is getting old and past use will not be seen much longer.

  • 2 Cor 3:10
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    10For the glory of the first no longer seems to be glory, because of the greater glory of that which comes after.

  • Heb 9:1
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    1Now the first agreement had its rules of worship, and a holy order.

  • Heb 9:18
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    18So that even the first agreement was not made without blood.

  • Heb 7:16
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    16That is to say, not made by a law based on the flesh, but by the power of a life without end:

  • Lev 16:34
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    34And let this be an order for ever for you, so that the sin of the children of Israel may be taken away once every year. And he did as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

  • Heb 10:26
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    26For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins,