Hebrews 10:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Heb 10:11 : 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.
  • Mic 6:6-8 : 6 With what am I to come before the Lord and go with bent head before the high God? am I to come before him with burned offerings, with young oxen a year old? 7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of sheep or with ten thousand rivers of oil? am I to give my first child for my wrongdoing, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 8 He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.
  • Rom 11:27 : 27 And this is my agreement with them, when I will take away their sins.
  • Heb 9:9 : 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 9:12-13 : 12 And 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. 13 For 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 10:8 : 8 After 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,
  • Mark 12:33 : 33 And to have love for him with all the heart, and with all the mind, and with all the strength, and to have the same love for his neighbour as for himself, is much more than all forms of offerings.
  • John 1:29 : 29 The day after, John sees Jesus coming to him and says, See, here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
  • 1 John 3:5 : 5 And you have knowledge that he came to take away sin: and in him there is no sin.
  • Ps 51:16 : 16 You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings.
  • Isa 1:11-15 : 11 What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats. 12 At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet? 13 Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings. 14 Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them. 15 And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.
  • Isa 66:3 : 3 He who puts an ox to death puts a man to death; he who makes an offering of a lamb puts a dog to death; he who makes a meal offering makes an offering of pig's blood; he who makes an offering of perfumes for a sign gives worship to an image: as they have gone after their desires, and their soul takes pleasure in their disgusting things;
  • Jer 6:20 : 20 To what purpose does sweet perfume come to me from Sheba, and spices from a far country? your burned offerings give me no pleasure, your offerings of beasts are not pleasing to me.
  • Jer 7:21-22 : 21 These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: Put your burned offerings with your offerings of beasts, and take flesh for your food. 22 For I said nothing to your fathers, and gave them no orders, on the day when I took them out of Egypt, about burned offerings or offerings of beasts:
  • Hos 6:6 : 6 Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.
  • Hos 14:2 : 2 O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall.
  • Amos 5:21-22 : 21 Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings. 22 Even if you give me your burned offerings and your meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: I will have nothing to do with the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.
  • Ps 50:8-9 : 8 I will not take up a cause against you because of your offerings, or because of your burned offerings, which are ever before me. 9 I will take no ox out of your house, or he-goats from your flocks; 10 For every beast of the woodland is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. 11 I see all the birds of the mountains, and the beasts of the field are mine. 12 If I had need of food, I would not give you word of it; for the earth is mine and all its wealth.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Heb 10:1-3
    3 verses
    83%

    1 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.

    2 For 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?

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

  • Heb 9:12-14
    3 verses
    80%

    12 And 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.

    13 For 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:

    14 How much more will the blood of Christ, who, being without sin, made an offering of himself to God through the Holy Spirit, make your hearts clean from dead works to be servants of the living God?

  • Heb 10:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

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

    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.

  • Heb 10:18
    78%

    18 Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no more offering for sin.

  • Heb 10:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

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

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

  • Heb 9:25-26
    2 verses
    76%

    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;

    26 For 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 13:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

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

    11 For the bodies of the beasts whose blood is taken into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin are burned outside the circle of the tents.

  • Heb 10:8
    74%

    8 After 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,

  • Lev 1:10
    74%

    10 And if his offering is of the flock, a burned offering of sheep or goats, let him give a male without a mark.

  • Heb 9:9
    74%

    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,

  • Lev 4:19-20
    2 verses
    74%

    19 And he is to take off all its fat, burning it on the altar.

    20 Let him do with the ox as he did with the ox of the sin-offering; and the priest will take away their sin and they will have forgiveness.

  • Lev 4:24
    74%

    24 And he is to put his hand on the head of the goat and put it to death in the place where they put to death the burned offering before the Lord: it is a sin-offering.

  • Num 28:30
    74%

    30 And one he-goat to take away your sin.

  • Num 28:22
    73%

    22 And one he-goat for a sin-offering to take away your sin.

  • Heb 9:18
    73%

    18 So that even the first agreement was not made without blood.

  • Heb 9:22-23
    2 verses
    73%

    22 And by the law almost all things are made clean with blood, and without blood there is no forgiveness.

    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 7:27
    72%

    27 Who 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.

  • Num 29:5
    72%

    5 And one he-goat for a sin-offering, to take away your sin:

  • Num 29:11
    72%

    11 One he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the offering for taking away your sin, and the regular burned offering and its meal offering, and their drink offerings.

  • Num 29:19
    72%

    19 And one he-goat for a sin-offering in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and their drink offerings.

  • Ezek 43:25
    72%

    25 Every day for seven days you are to give a goat for a sin-offering: and let them give in addition a young ox and a male sheep from the flock without any mark on them.

  • Num 29:34
    72%

    34 And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.

  • Num 29:22
    72%

    22 And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.

  • Lev 9:3
    72%

    3 And say to the children of Israel: Take a he-goat for a sin-offering, and a young ox and a lamb, in their first year, without any mark on them, for a burned offering;

  • Num 29:31
    72%

    31 And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, its meal offering, and its drink offerings.

  • Ezek 43:21
    72%

    21 And you are to take the ox of the sin-offering, and have it burned in the special place ordered for it in the house, outside the holy place.

  • Num 18:17
    72%

    17 But no such payment may be made for the first birth of an ox or a sheep or a goat; these are holy: their blood is to be dropped on the altar, and their fat burned for an offering made by fire, a sweet smell to the Lord.

  • Num 29:28
    71%

    28 And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.

  • Heb 8:4
    71%

    4 If 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;

  • Num 29:25
    71%

    25 And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.

  • Num 7:40
    71%

    40 One male of the goats for a sin-offering;

  • Lev 4:30
    71%

    30 And the priest is to take some of the blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burned offering, and all the rest of its blood is to be drained out at the base of the altar.

  • Lev 17:11
    71%

    11 For the life of the flesh is in its blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to take away your sin: for it is the blood which makes free from sin because of the life in it.

  • Num 7:46
    71%

    46 One male of the goats for a sin-offering;

  • Deut 14:4
    71%

    4 These are the beasts which you may have for food: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;

  • Num 29:38
    71%

    38 And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.

  • Lev 16:15
    71%

    15 Then let him put to death the goat of the sin-offering for the people, and take its blood inside the veil and do with it as he did with the blood of the ox, shaking drops of it on and before the cover of the ark.

  • Heb 10:14
    71%

    14 Because by one offering he has made complete for ever those who are made holy.

  • Num 7:28
    71%

    28 One male of the goats for a sin-offering;

  • Heb 9:7
    71%

    7 But 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: