Hebrews 10:4

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Hebrews 10:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

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,

4 because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me.

6 In burnt offerings and sin offerings You took no delight.

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Hebrews 10:8

In the passage above He says, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not desire, nor did You delight in them” (although they are offered according to the law).

Hebrews 9:9

It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper.

Hebrews 9:13

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean,

Psalms 50:8

I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.

Psalms 50:9

I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens,

Psalms 50:10

for every beast of the forest is Mine— the cattle on a thousand hills.

Psalms 50:11

I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine.

Psalms 50:12

If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof.

Psalms 51:16

For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.

Isaiah 1:11

“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.

Isaiah 1:12

When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you— this trampling of My courts?

Isaiah 1:13

Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me— your New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations. I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly.

Isaiah 1:14

I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.

Isaiah 1:15

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.

Isaiah 66:3

Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s blood; whoever offers frankincense is like one who blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways and delighted in their abominations.

Jeremiah 6:20

What use to Me is frankincense from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please Me.”

Jeremiah 7:21

This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves!

Jeremiah 7:22

For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,

Hosea 6:6

For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Amos 5:21

“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.

Amos 5:22

Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.

Micah 6:6

With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?

Micah 6:7

Would the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I present my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

Micah 6:8

He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Mark 12:33

and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, which is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

Hebrews 10:11

Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

Hosea 14:2

Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips.

John 1:29

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

Romans 11:27

And this is My covenant with them when I take away their sins.”

1 John 3:5

But you know that Christ appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.