Hebrews 10:4

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

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  • Heb 10:11 : 11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
  • Mic 6:6-8 : 6 Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? 7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
  • Rom 11:27 : 27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
  • Heb 9:9 : 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 9:12-13 : 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 10:8 : 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;
  • Mark 12:33 : 33 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
  • John 1:29 : 29 The next day n seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
  • 1 John 3:5 : 5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
  • Ps 51:16 : 16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
  • Isa 1:11-15 : 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
  • Isa 66:3 : 3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
  • Jer 6:20 : 20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
  • Jer 7:21-22 : 21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. 22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
  • Hos 6:6 : 6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
  • Hos 14:2 : 2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
  • Amos 5:21-22 : 21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. 22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
  • Ps 50:8-9 : 8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. 9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. 10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. 11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

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  • Heb 10:1-3
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    1For 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.

    2For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

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

  • Heb 9:12-14
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    12Neither 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.

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

    14How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

  • Heb 10:10-11
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    10By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

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

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

  • Heb 10:5-6
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    5Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

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

  • Heb 9:25-26
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    25Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;

    26For 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 13:10-11
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    10We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.

    11For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.

  • Heb 10:8
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    8Above 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;

  • Lev 1:10
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    10And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a ma without bmish.

  • Heb 9:9
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    9Which 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;

  • Lev 4:19-20
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    19And he shall take all his fat from him, and burn it upon the altar.

    20And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock for a sin offering, so shall he do with this: and the priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them.

  • Lev 4:24
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    24And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD: it is a sin offering.

  • Num 28:30
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    30And one kid of the goats, to make an atonement for you.

  • Num 28:22
    73%

    22And one goat for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you.

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

  • Heb 9:22-23
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    22And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

    23It 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 7:27
    72%

    27Who 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.

  • Num 29:5
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    5And one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you:

  • Num 29:11
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    11One kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the sin offering of atonement, and the contial burnt offering, and the meat offering of it, and their drink offerings.

  • Num 29:19
    72%

    19And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the contial burnt offering, and the meat offering thereof, and their drink offerings.

  • Ezek 43:25
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    25Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.

  • Num 29:34
    72%

    34And one goat for a sin offering; beside the contial burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.

  • Num 29:22
    72%

    22And one goat for a sin offering; beside the contial burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.

  • Lev 9:3
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    3And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without bmish, for a burnt offering;

  • Num 29:31
    72%

    31And one goat for a sin offering; beside the contial burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.

  • Ezek 43:21
    72%

    21Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary.

  • Num 18:17
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    17But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.

  • Num 29:28
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    28And one goat for a sin offering; beside the contial burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.

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

  • Num 29:25
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    25And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the contial burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.

  • Num 7:40
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    40One kid of the goats for a sin offering:

  • Lev 4:30
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    30And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar.

  • Lev 17:11
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    11For the life of the fsh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.

  • Num 7:46
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    46One kid of the goats for a sin offering:

  • Deut 14:4
    71%

    4These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

  • Num 29:38
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    38And one goat for a sin offering; beside the contial burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.

  • Lev 16:15
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    15Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the peop, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprink it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:

  • Heb 10:14
    71%

    14For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

  • Num 7:28
    71%

    28One kid of the goats for a sin offering:

  • Heb 9:7
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    7But 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: