Hebrews 10:4

Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3But year by year there is a memory of sins in those offerings.

5So that when he comes into the world, he says, You had no desire for offerings, but you made a body ready for me;

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Cross References

Psalms 51:16\51:14\Be my saviour from violent death, O God, the God of my salvation; and my tongue will give praise to your righteousness.

Isaiah 66:3A people who make me angry every day, making offerings in gardens, and burning perfumes on bricks.

Jeremiah 7:21These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: Put your burned offerings with your offerings of beasts, and take flesh for your food.

Hosea 14:2\14:1\O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall.

Micah 6:6With what am I to come before the Lord and go with bent head before the high God? am I to come before him with burned offerings, with young oxen a year old?

John 1:29The day after, John sees Jesus coming to him and says, See, here is the Lamb of God who 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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