Hebrews 10:4

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

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3There is, however, in these sacrifices, a remembrance of sins every year.

5Wherefore, when he comes into the world, he says: Sacrifice and offering thou hast not desired, but a body thou hast prepared me;

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Cross References

John 1:29The next day John saw Jesus coming to him, and said: Behold the Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 10:2-7

The Priesthood of Christ. ( a. d. 62.) 1 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. 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… Read the whole commentary →

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