Hebrews 10:6

And holocausts on account of sins, thou hast not asked.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5Therefore, when entering the world, he said: In sacrifices and oblations, thou hast not had pleasure; but thou hast clothed me with a body.

7Then I said: Behold I come, as it is written of me in the beginning of the books, to do thy pleasure, O God.

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Cross References

Ephesians 5:2and walk in love; as the Messiah also hath loved us, and hath given up himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God, for a sweet odor.

Hebrews 10:4For the blood of bulls and of goats cannot purge 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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