Hebrews 10:6

Holocausts for sin were not pleasing to you.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

5For this reason, as Christ enters into the world, he says: “Sacrifice and oblation, you did not want. But you have fashioned a body for me.

7Then I said, ‘Behold, I draw near.’ At the head of the book, it has been written of me that I should do your will, O God.”

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Cross References

Leviticus 1:1Then the Lord called Moses and spoke to him from the tabernacle of the testimony, saying:

Malachi 1:10Who is there among you that would close the doors and enflame my altar without pay? I have no favor in you, says the Lord of hosts. And I will not accept a gift from your hand.

Ephesians 5:2And walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and delivered himself for us, as an oblation and a sacrifice to God, with a fragrance of sweetness.

Hebrews 10:4For it is impossible for sins to be taken away by the blood of oxen and goats.

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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