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Hebrews 10:1
Hebrews 10:1 is verse 1 of Hebrews chapter 10, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.
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Hebrews 10:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible
1 For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
2 If it could, would not the offerings have ceased? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt the guilt of their sins.
3 Instead, those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins,
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Hebrews 8:5The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”
Hebrews 9:9It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper.
Hebrews 9:11But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that have come, He went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made by hands and is not a part of this creation.
Hebrews 9:23So it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Colossians 2:17These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.
Hebrews 10:3Instead, those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins,
Hebrews 10:4because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
Hebrews 10:11Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
Hebrews 10:12But when this Priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God.
Hebrews 10:13Since that time, He waits for His enemies to be made a footstool for His feet,
Hebrews 10:14because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.
Hebrews 10:15The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First He says:
Hebrews 10:16“This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.”
Hebrews 10:17Then He adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”
Hebrews 10:18And where these have been forgiven, an offering for sin is no longer needed.
Hebrews 7:18So the former commandment is set aside because it was weak and useless
Hebrews 7:19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.
Hebrews 9:8By this arrangement the Holy Spirit was showing that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still standing.
Hebrews 9:25Nor did He enter heaven to offer Himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.