Hebrews 10:4

It is simply impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Animal sacrifice could never accomplish real atonement.

Cross-references · 18

• Heb 10:11Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
• Isa 1:11–15“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.
• Mic 6:6–8With 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?
• Rom 11:27And this is My covenant with them when I take away their sins.”
• 1 Jn 3:5But you know that Christ appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.
• Mark 12:33and 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.”
• Heb 10:8In 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).
• Heb 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.
• Amos 5:21–22“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
• Hos 6:6For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
• Ps 51:16For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.
• John 1:29The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
• Heb 9:12–13He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.
• Jer 7:21–22This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves!
• Hos 14:2Bring 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.
• Isa 66:3Whoever 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.
• Jer 6:20What 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.”
• Ps 50:8–12I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.

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