Hebrews 10:6

You had no joy in burned offerings or in offerings for sin.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

In Context

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

7Then I said, See, I have come to do your pleasure, O God (as it is said of me in the roll of the book).

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Cross References

Leviticus 1:1And the voice of the Lord came to Moses out of the Tent of meeting, saying,

Malachi 1:10If only there was one among you who would see that the doors were shut, so that you might not put a light to the fire on my altar for nothing! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of armies, and I will not take an offering from your hands.

Ephesians 5:2And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

Hebrews 10:4Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins.

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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