Hebrews 10:4

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For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

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  • Heb 10:11 : 11 And every priest stands day after day serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again– sacrifices that can never take away sins.
  • Mic 6:6-8 : 6 With what should I enter the LORD’s presence? With what should I bow before the sovereign God? Should I enter his presence with burnt offerings, with year-old calves? 7 Will the LORD accept a thousand rams, or ten thousand streams of olive oil? Should I give him my firstborn child as payment for my rebellion, my offspring– my own flesh and blood– for my sin? 8 He has told you, O man, what is good, and what the LORD really wants from you: He wants you to carry out justice, to love faithfulness, and to live obediently before your God.
  • Rom 11:27 : 27 And this is my covenant with them, when I take away their sins.”
  • Heb 9:9 : 9 This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper.
  • Heb 9:12-13 : 12 and he entered once for all into the most holy place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow sprinkled on those who are defiled consecrated them and provided ritual purity,
  • Heb 10:8 : 8 When he says above,“Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them”(which are offered according to the law),
  • Mark 12:33 : 33 And to love him with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
  • John 1:29 : 29 On the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said,“Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
  • 1 John 3:5 : 5 And you know that Jesus was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.
  • Ps 51:16 : 16 Certainly you do not want a sacrifice, or else I would offer it; you do not desire a burnt sacrifice.
  • Isa 1:11-15 : 11 “Of what importance to me are your many sacrifices?” says the LORD.“I have had my fill of burnt sacrifices of rams and the fat from steers. The blood of bulls, lambs, and goats I do not want. 12 When you enter my presence, do you actually think I want this– animals trampling on my courtyards? 13 Do not bring any more meaningless offerings; I consider your incense detestable! You observe new moon festivals, Sabbaths, and convocations, but I cannot tolerate sin-stained celebrations! 14 I hate your new moon festivals and assemblies; they are a burden that I am tired of carrying. 15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I look the other way; when you offer your many prayers, I do not listen, because your hands are covered with blood.
  • Isa 66:3 : 3 The one who slaughters a bull also strikes down a man; the one who sacrifices a lamb also breaks a dog’s neck; the one who presents an offering includes pig’s blood with it; the one who offers incense also praises an idol. They have decided to behave this way; they enjoy these disgusting practices.
  • Jer 6:20 : 20 I take no delight when they offer up to me frankincense that comes from Sheba or sweet-smelling cane imported from a faraway land. I cannot accept the burnt offerings they bring me. I get no pleasure from the sacrifices they offer to me.’
  • Jer 7:21-22 : 21 “The LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says to the people of Judah:‘You might as well go ahead and add the meat of your burnt offerings to that of the other sacrifices and eat it, too! 22 Consider this: When I spoke to your ancestors after I brought them out of Egypt, I did not merely give them commands about burnt offerings and sacrifices.
  • Hos 6:6 : 6 For I delight in faithfulness, not simply in sacrifice; I delight in acknowledging God, not simply in whole burnt offerings.
  • Hos 14:2 : 2 Return to the LORD and repent! Say to him:“Completely forgive our iniquity; accept our penitential prayer, that we may offer the praise of our lips as sacrificial bulls.
  • Amos 5:21-22 : 21 “I absolutely despise your festivals! I get no pleasure from your religious assemblies! 22 Even if you offer me burnt and grain offerings, I will not be satisfied; I will not look with favor on your peace offerings of fattened calves.
  • Ps 50:8-9 : 8 I am not condemning you because of your sacrifices, or because of your burnt sacrifices that you continually offer me. 9 I do not need to take a bull from your household or goats from your sheepfolds. 10 For every wild animal in the forest belongs to me, as well as the cattle that graze on a thousand hills. 11 I keep track of every bird in the hills, and the insects of the field are mine. 12 Even if I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and all it contains belong to me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 10:1-3
    3 verses
    83%

    1Concluding Exposition: Old and New Sacrifices Contrasted For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.

    2For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once for all and so have no further consciousness of sin?

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

  • Heb 9:12-14
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    80%

    12and he entered once for all into the most holy place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured eternal redemption.

    13For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow sprinkled on those who are defiled consecrated them and provided ritual purity,

    14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.

  • Heb 10:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    10By his will we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

    11And every priest stands day after day serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again– sacrifices that can never take away sins.

  • Heb 10:18
    78%

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

  • Heb 10:5-6
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    77%

    5So when he came into the world, he said,“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.

    6“Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no delight in.

  • Heb 9:25-26
    2 verses
    76%

    25And he did not enter to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the sanctuary year after year with blood that is not his own,

    26for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the consummation of the ages to put away sin by his sacrifice.

  • Heb 13:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10We have an altar that those who serve in the tabernacle have no right to eat from.

    11For the bodies of those animals whose blood the high priest brings into the sanctuary as an offering for sin are burned outside the camp.

  • Heb 10:8
    74%

    8When he says above,“Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them”(which are offered according to the law),

  • Lev 1:10
    74%

    10Animal from the Flock“‘If his offering is from the flock for a burnt offering– from the sheep or the goats– he must present a flawless male,

  • Heb 9:9
    74%

    9This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper.

  • Lev 4:19-20
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    19“‘Then the priest must take all its fat and offer the fat up in smoke on the altar.

    20He must do with the rest of the bull just as he did with the bull of the sin offering; this is what he must do with it. So the priest will make atonement on their behalf and they will be forgiven.

  • Lev 4:24
    74%

    24He must lay his hand on the head of the male goat and slaughter it in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered before the LORD– it is a sin offering.

  • Num 28:30
    74%

    30as well as one male goat to make an atonement for you.

  • Num 28:22
    73%

    22as well as one goat for a purification offering, to make atonement for you.

  • Heb 9:18
    73%

    18So even the first covenant was inaugurated with blood.

  • Heb 9:22-23
    2 verses
    73%

    22Indeed according to the law almost everything was purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

    23So it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required better sacrifices than these.

  • Heb 7:27
    72%

    27He has no need to do every day what those priests do, to offer sacrifices first for their own sins and then for the sins of the people, since he did this in offering himself once for all.

  • Num 29:5
    72%

    5with one male goat for a purification offering to make an atonement for you;

  • Num 29:11
    72%

    11along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the purification offering for atonement and the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and their drink offerings.

  • Num 29:19
    72%

    19along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and their drink offerings.

  • Ezek 43:25
    72%

    25“For seven days you will provide every day a goat for a sin offering; a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without blemish, will be provided.

  • Num 29:34
    72%

    34along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.

  • Num 29:22
    72%

    22along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.

  • Lev 9:3
    72%

    3Then tell the Israelites:‘Take a male goat for a sin offering and a calf and lamb, both a year old and flawless, for a burnt offering,

  • Num 29:31
    72%

    31along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.

  • Ezek 43:21
    72%

    21You will also take the bull for the sin offering, and it will be burned in the appointed place in the temple, outside the sanctuary.

  • Num 18:17
    72%

    17But you must not redeem the firstborn of a cow or a sheep or a goat; they are holy. You must splash their blood on the altar and burn their fat for an offering made by fire for a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

  • Num 29:28
    71%

    28along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.

  • Heb 8:4
    71%

    4Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer the gifts prescribed by the law.

  • Num 29:25
    71%

    25along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.

  • Num 7:40
    71%

    40one male goat for a purification offering;

  • Lev 4:30
    71%

    30Then the priest must take some of its blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and he must pour out all the rest of its blood at the base of the altar.

  • Lev 17:11
    71%

    11for the life of every living thing is in the blood. So I myself have assigned it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, for the blood makes atonement by means of the life.

  • Num 7:46
    71%

    46one male goat for a purification offering;

  • Deut 14:4
    71%

    4These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

  • Num 29:38
    71%

    38along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.

  • Lev 16:15
    71%

    15“He must then slaughter the sin offering goat which is for the people. He is to bring its blood inside the curtain, and he is to do with its blood just as he did to the blood of the bull: He is to sprinkle it on the atonement lid and in front of the atonement lid.

  • Heb 10:14
    71%

    14For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy.

  • Num 7:28
    71%

    28one male goat for a purification offering;

  • Heb 9:7
    71%

    7But only the high priest enters once a year into the inner tent, and not without blood that he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.