Hebrews 10:1

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ For the law having a shadow of good things to come, [and] not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

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  • Heb 8:5 : 5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, [that] thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
  • Col 2:17 : 17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body [is] of Christ.
  • Heb 9:11 : 11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
  • Heb 9:23 : 23 ¶ [It was] therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
  • Heb 7:18-19 : 18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. 19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope [did]; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
  • Heb 9:8-9 : 8 ¶ The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: 9 Which [was] a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
  • Heb 9:25 : 25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
  • Heb 10:3-4 : 3 But in those [sacrifices there is] a remembrance again [made] of sins every year. 4 For [it is] not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
  • Heb 10:11-18 : 11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; 13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. 14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. 15 [Whereof] the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, 16 This [is] the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; 17 And their sins and 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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    2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

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

    4 For [it is] not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

    5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

    6 In burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

  • Heb 9:5-13
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    5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.

    6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service [of God].

    7 But into the second [went] the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and [for] the errors of the people:

    8 ¶ The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:

    9 Which [was] a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;

    10 [Which stood] only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed [on them] until the time of reformation.

    11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

    12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption [for us].

    13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:

  • Heb 7:18-20
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    18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.

    19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope [did]; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

    20 And inasmuch as not without an oath [he was made priest]:

  • Heb 10:8-12
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    8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and [offering] for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure [therein]; which are offered by the law;

    9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

    10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once [for all].

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

    12 But this man, after 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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    14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

    15 [Whereof] the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,

  • Heb 9:22-26
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    22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

    23 ¶ [It was] therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

    24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, [which are] the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

    25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;

    26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

  • Heb 8:4-7
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    4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:

    5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, [that] thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.

    6 ¶ But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

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

  • Heb 7:27-28
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    27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

    28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, [maketh] the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.

  • Col 2:17
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    17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body [is] of Christ.

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

    19 ¶ Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,

  • Heb 7:11-12
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    11 ¶ If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need [was there] that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

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

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    40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

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

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

  • Heb 8:13
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    13 In that he saith, A new [covenant], he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old [is] ready to vanish away.

  • 2 Cor 3:10
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    10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

  • Heb 9:1
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    1 ¶ Then verily the first [covenant] had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.

  • Heb 9:18
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    18 Whereupon neither the first [testament] was dedicated without blood.

  • Heb 7:16
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    16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.

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

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