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 10:11And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
• Isa 1:11–15To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
• Mic 6:6–8Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
• Rom 11:27For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
• 1 Jn 3:5And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
• Mark 12:33And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
• Heb 10:8Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
• Heb 9:9Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
• Amos 5:21–22I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
• Hos 6:6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
• Ps 51:16For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
• John 1:29The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
• Heb 9:12–13Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
• Jer 7:21–22Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
• Hos 14:2Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
• Isa 66:3He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
• Jer 6:20To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
• Ps 50:8–12I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

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