Hebrews 10:6

Thou dost take no pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.

Twentieth Century New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5That is why, when he was coming into the world, the Christ declared — ‘Sacrifice and offering thou dost not desire, but thou dost provide for me a body;

7So I said, “See, I have come’ (as is written of me in the pages of the Book), “To do thy will, O God.”’

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Cross References

Ephesians 5:2and live a life of love, following the example of the Christ, who loved you and gave himself for you as ‘an offering and a sacrifice to God, that should be fragrant and acceptable.’

Hebrews 10:4For the blood of bulls and goats is powerless 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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