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 10:11Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,
• Isa 1:11–15“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
• Mic 6:6–8How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
• Rom 11:27This is my covenant to them, when I will take away their sins.”
• 1 Jn 3:5You know that he was revealed 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, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
• Heb 10:8Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in them” (those which are offered according to the law),
• Heb 9:9which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect;
• Amos 5:21–22I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.
• Hos 6:6For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
• Ps 51:16For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
• John 1:29The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
• Heb 9:12–13nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.
• Jer 7:21–22Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat.
• Hos 14:2Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.
• Isa 66:3He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck; he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:
• Jer 6:20To what purpose comes there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.”
• Ps 50:8–12I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

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