Hebrews 10:4
For it is impossible for sins to be taken away by the blood of oxen and goats.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
In Context
3Instead, in these things, a commemoration of sins is made every year.
Cross References
Isaiah 66:3Whoever immolates an ox, it is as if he slaughters a man. Whoever sacrifices a sheep, it is as if he is smashing the head of a dog. Whoever offers an oblation, it is as if he is offering swine’s blood. Whoever makes remembrance with incense, it is as if he is blessing an idol. All these things, they have chosen according to their own ways, and their soul has taken delight in their own abominations.
Jeremiah 7:21Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Add your holocausts to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.
Hosea 14:2Israel, convert to the Lord your God. For you have been ruined by your own iniquity.
Micah 6:6What worthy thing might I offer to the Lord, as I bend the knee before God on high? How could I offer holocausts to him, and one year-old calves?
John 1:29On the next day, John saw Jesus coming toward him, and so he said: “Behold, the Lamb of God. Behold, he 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 →