Hebrews 10:1

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The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming. It’s not the real things themselves. That’s why the law can never, through the same sacrifices that are repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect the people who come near to worship.

Cross References

Hebrews 8:5

They serve at a sanctuary that’s a picture and shadow of what’s in heaven. That’s why God warned Moses when he was about to build the holy tent, “When you make everything, be sure to follow the pattern I showed you on the mountain.”

Hebrews 9:11

But then, when Christ came as the high priest of the good things that have already arrived, he went through the greater and more perfect holy tent. That tent wasn’t made with human hands. In other words, it’s not part of this creation.

Colossians 2:17

Those were only a shadow of the things that were coming; now the reality is found in Christ.

Hebrews 9:23

So the copies of the heavenly things had to be made pure with these sacrifices. But the heavenly things themselves had to be made pure with better sacrifices.

Hebrews 9:25

The high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that isn’t his own. But Christ didn’t enter heaven to offer himself again and again.

Romans 8:3

God did what the written law was not able to do, since it was weakened by our sinful desires. God sent his Son to be an offering for sin. He sent him in human form like those who are susceptible to sin. When God did this, he passed judgment against sin so that it could no longer control people through their wrong desires.

Hebrews 7:11

If the priests who came from Levi’s family could have made the people perfect by what they did at the temple, then why would another priest have to come who wasn’t in the order of Aaron, but in the order of Melchizedek? The law that was given to the people said that priests had to come from Levi’s family line.

Hebrews 10:22

So let’s draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings. Our hearts have been sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.