Hebrews 10:4

New English Translation

For the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sins.

Cross References

Psalm 51:16

Certainly you do not want a sacrifice, or else I would offer it; you do not desire a burnt sacrifice.

Isaiah 66:3

The one who slaughters a bull also strikes down a man; the one who sacrifices a lamb also breaks a dog’s neck; the one who presents an offering includes pig’s blood with it; the one who offers incense also praises an idol. They have decided to behave this way; they enjoy these disgusting practices.

Jeremiah 6:20

I take no delight when they offer up to me frankincense that comes from Sheba or sweet-smelling cane imported from a faraway land. I cannot accept the burnt offerings they bring me. I get no pleasure from the sacrifices they offer to me.’

Hosea 14:2

Return to the Lord and repent! Say to him: “Completely forgive our iniquity; accept our penitential prayer, that we may offer the praise of our lips as sacrificial bulls.

Hosea 6:6

For I delight in faithfulness, not simply in sacrifice; I delight in acknowledging God, not simply in whole burnt offerings.

Mark 12:33

And to love him with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

John 1:29

On the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, 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

For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.

Hebrews 10:11

And every priest stands day after day serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again – sacrifices that can never take away sins.

Hebrews 10:8

When he says above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them” (which are offered according to the law),

Hebrews 9:9

This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper.

1 John 3:5

And you know that Jesus was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.