Hebrews 10:5
Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith: Sacrifice and oblation thou wouldest not: but a body thou hast fitted to me:
Douay-Rheims 1899
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In Context
4For it is impossible that with the blood of oxen and goats sin should be taken away.
6Holocausts for sin did not please thee.
Cross References
Psalms 40:6Thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, O Lord my God : and in thy thoughts there is no one like to thee. I have declared and I have spoken they are multiplied above number.
Isaiah 1:11To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats.
Jeremiah 6:20To what purpose do you bring me frankincense from Saba, and the sweet smelling cane from a far country? your holocausts are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me.
Amos 5:21I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies.
Matthew 11:3Art thou he that art to come, or look we for another?
Luke 7:19And John called to him two of his disciples, and sent them to Jesus, saying: Art thou he that art to come; or look we for another?
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 →