Hebrews 10:4

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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

Cross References

Mark 12:33

And that to love Him with all one’s heart, with all one’s understanding, and with all one’s strength, and to love one’s neighbor the same way he loves himself, are far more [important] than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices [in the world].”

John 1:29

On the next day John [the Immerser] saw Jesus approaching him and said, “Look, [there is] the Lamb of God; He [will] take away the sin of the people of the world.

Romans 11:27

[A summary of Jer. 31:31-34 says], “And I [i.e., God] will make this Agreement with them [i.e., Jewish and Gentile believers] when I take away their sins.”

Hebrews 10:1

For the Law of Moses was [only] a foreshadow of the good things that [were] to come [i.e., in the Messianic age], not the exact image of those things. It can never, by the same sacrifices, continually offered year after year, make [morally] perfect those who draw near [to God in worship].

Hebrews 10:11

For every priest stands and performs his service day after day, offering over and over the same sacrifices which can never take away sins.

Hebrews 10:8

[After] saying the above, “You did not want, nor were you pleased, with [peace] sacrifices and [meal] offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin offerings,” [although] these are offered according to the Law of Moses,

Hebrews 9:9

[That Tabernacle] is symbolic of the present time, [indicating] that both gifts and [animal] sacrifices, which are offered [by the priests], are not able to give the worshiper a clear conscience

1 John 3:5

But, you [should] know that Christ appeared [on earth] to take away [our] sins, and that there is no sin in His life [See II Cor. 5:21].