Hebrews 10:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Because the blood of bulls and goats is powerless to take sins away.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

Common English Bible

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

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ For it is impossible for sins to be taken away by the blood of oxen and goats.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ For it is impossible that with the blood of oxen and goats sin should be taken away.

Hebrews 10:4 Cross References

Psalm 51:16

For you have no delight in sacrifice; if I were to give a burnt offering, you would not be pleased.

Isaiah 66:3

Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who kills a human, whoever sacrifices a lamb like one who breaks a dog’s neck, whoever presents a grain offering like one who offers pig’s blood, whoever makes a memorial offering of frankincense like one who blesses an idol. Just as these have chosen their own ways and in their abominations they take delight,

Jeremiah 6:20

Of what use to me is frankincense that comes from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me.

Hosea 14:2

Take words with you and return to the Lord; say to him, “Take away all guilt; accept that which is good, and we will offer the fruit of our lips.

Hosea 6:6

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

Mark 12:33

and ‘to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength’ and ‘to love one’s neighbor as oneself’—this is much more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

John 1:29

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him and declared, “Here is 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.”

Hebrews 10:1

Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered year after year, make perfect those who approach.

Hebrews 10:11

And every priest stands day after day at his service, offering again and again the same sacrifices that can never take away sins.

Hebrews 10:8

When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law),

Hebrews 9:9

This is a symbol of the present time, indicating that gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper

1 John 3:5

You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.