Hebrews 10:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Heb 10:11 : 11 And every priest stands daily ministering and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
  • Mic 6:6-8 : 6 With what shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the High God? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? 7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 8 He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
  • Rom 11:27 : 27 For this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins.
  • Heb 9:9 : 9 Which was a symbol for the present time, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot make the worshiper perfect in conscience;
  • Heb 9:12-13 : 12 Not by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 13 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh,
  • Heb 10:8 : 8 Previously saying, Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin you did not desire, nor had pleasure in them (which are offered according to the law),
  • Mark 12:33 : 33 And to love Him with all the heart, with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
  • John 1:29 : 29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.
  • 1 John 3:5 : 5 And you know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him there is no sin.
  • Ps 51:16 : 16 For you do not desire sacrifice, or I would give it; you do not delight in burnt offering.
  • Isa 1:11-15 : 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? says the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals; and I delight not in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of goats. 12 When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts? 13 Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot endure; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble to me; I am weary to bear them. 15 And when you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: indeed, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
  • Isa 66:3 : 3 He that kills an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrifices a lamb, as if he broke a dog's neck; he that offers an offering, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burns incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.
  • Jer 6:20 : 20 To what purpose does incense come to me from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me.
  • Jer 7:21-22 : 21 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat. 22 For I did not speak to your fathers, nor command 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 to him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so we will offer the sacrifice of our lips.
  • Amos 5:21-22 : 21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not delight in your solemn assemblies. 22 Though you offer me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them; nor will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
  • Ps 50:8-9 : 8 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, which are ever before Me. 9 I will take no bull from your house, nor goats from your folds. 10 For every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. 11 I know all the birds of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are Mine. 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you: for the world is Mine, and all its fullness.

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  • Heb 10:1-3
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    1 For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come and not the actual form of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offer year by year continually make those who come perfect.

    2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshipers, once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins.

    3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.

  • Heb 9:12-14
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    12 Not by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

    13 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh,

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

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

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

  • 18 Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.

  • Heb 10:5-6
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    5 Therefore, when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you have prepared for me:

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

  • Heb 9:25-26
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    25 Not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the holy place every year with the blood of others;

    26 For then He would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

  • Heb 13:10-11
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    10 We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.

    11 For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp.

  • 8 Previously saying, Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin you did not desire, nor had pleasure in them (which are offered according to the law),

  • 10 And if his offering is of the flocks, namely, of the sheep or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring a male without blemish.

  • 9 Which was a symbol for the present time, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot make the worshiper perfect in conscience;

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

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

  • 24 And 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.

  • 30 And one kid of the goats, to make atonement for you.

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

  • 18 Therefore not even the first covenant was dedicated without blood.

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

    23 Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

  • 27 Who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for he did this once, when he offered up himself.

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

  • 11 One kid of the goats for a sin offering; besides the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the grain offering of it, and their drink offerings.

  • 19 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and the grain offering of it, and their drink offerings.

  • 25 For seven days you shall prepare a goat daily for a sin offering; they shall also prepare a young bull and a ram from the flock, without blemish.

  • 34 And one goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering.

  • 22 And one goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering.

  • 3 And to the children of Israel you shall speak, saying, Take a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering;

  • 31 And one goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering.

  • 21 Then you shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, outside the sanctuary.

  • 17 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy: you shall sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet aroma to the LORD.

  • 28 And one goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering.

  • 4 For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are priests that offer gifts according to the law;

  • 25 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering.

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

  • 30 And the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all its blood at the base of the altar.

  • 11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.

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

  • 4 These are the animals which you shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

  • 38 And one goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering.

  • 15 Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring its blood within the veil, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:

  • 14 For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

  • 28 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:

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