Hebrews 10:1

World English Bible (2000)

For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

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  • Heb 8:5 : 5 who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, "See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain."
  • Col 2:17 : 17 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.
  • Heb 9:11 : 11 But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,
  • Heb 9:23 : 23 It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
  • Heb 7:18-19 : 18 For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness 19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
  • Heb 9:8-9 : 8 The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn't yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing; 9 which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshipper perfect;
  • Heb 9:25 : 25 nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,
  • Heb 10:3-4 : 3 But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins. 4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
  • Heb 10:11-18 : 11 Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins, 12 but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God; 13 from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet. 14 For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. 15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying, 16 "This is the covenant that I will make with them: 'After those days,' says the Lord, 'I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;'" then he says, 17 "I will remember their sins and their iniquities 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 Or else wouldn't they have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

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

    4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

    5 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire, but you prepared a body for me;

    6 You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.

  • Heb 9:5-13
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    5 and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can't speak now in detail.

    6 Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,

    7 but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.

    8 The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn't yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing;

    9 which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshipper perfect;

    10 being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

    11 But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,

    12 nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.

    13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh:

  • Heb 7:18-20
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    18 For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

    19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

    20 Inasmuch as he was not made priest without the taking of an oath

  • Heb 10:8-12
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    8 Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the law),

    9 then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,

    10 by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

    11 Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,

    12 but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;

  • Heb 10:14-15
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    14 For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

    15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,

  • Heb 9:22-26
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    22 According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

    23 It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

    24 For Christ hasn't entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations 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 enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,

    26 or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed 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 would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;

    5 who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, "See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain."

    6 But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.

    7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.

  • Heb 7:27-28
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    27 who doesn't need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.

    28 For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.

  • Col 2:17
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    17 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.

  • 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, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,

  • Heb 7:11-12
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    11 Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

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

  • Heb 11:40
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    40 God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

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

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

  • Heb 8:13
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    13 In that he says, "A new covenant," he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.

  • 2 Cor 3:10
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    10 For most certainly that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses.

  • Heb 9:1
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    1 Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary.

  • Heb 9:18
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    18 Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood.

  • Heb 7:16
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    16 who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life:

  • Lev 16:34
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    34 "This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel once in the year because of all their sins." It was done as Yahweh commanded Moses.

  • Heb 10:26
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    26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,