Hebrews 10:5

Quoting Psalm 40, the author presents Christ saying God prepared a body for him rather than desiring mere sacrifice. Christ's incarnation was for obedient self-offering.

Cross-references · 23

• Ps 40:6–8Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.
• Isa 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.
• Isa 7:14Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.
• 1 Pet 2:24He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
• Matt 1:20–23But after he had pondered these things, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to embrace Mary as your wife, for the One conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
• Heb 10:7Then I said, ‘Here I am, it is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God.’”
• Heb 2:14Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,
• Heb 1:6And again, when God brings His firstborn into the world, He says: “Let all God’s angels worship Him.”
• Gal 4:4But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
• Heb 10:10And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
• Heb 8:3And since every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, it was necessary for this One also to have something to offer.
• John 1:14The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
• 1 Tim 3:16By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was believed in throughout the world, was taken up in glory.
• 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 50:8–23I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
• 1 Jn 4:2–3By this you will know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
• Amos 5:21–22“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
• Luke 1:35The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God.
• 2 Jn 1:7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, refusing to confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.
• Jer 31:22How long will you wander, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the land—a woman will shelter a man.”
• Gen 3:15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
• Matt 11:3to ask Him, “Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?”
• Luke 7:19So John called two of his disciples and sent them to ask the Lord, “Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?”

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