Hebrews 10:6

Burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin gave you no pleasure.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

5That's why when Christ came into the world he said, “You didn't want sacrifices or offerings, but you did prepare a body for me.

7Then I said, ‘God, see I've come to do what you want me to do, just as it says about me in the book.’”

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Cross References

Leviticus 1:1The Lord called Moses and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying,

Malachi 1:10I really wish one of you would shut the Temple doors to stop you lighting pointless fires on my altar! I am not pleased with you, says the Lord Almighty, and I will not accept offerings from you.

Ephesians 5:2Live in love, just as Christ loved you. He gave himself for us, a gift and sacrificial offering to God like a sweet-smelling perfume.

Hebrews 10:4because it's impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to remove 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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