Hebrews 10:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Because the blood of bulls and goats is powerless to take sins away. American Standard Version (1901) For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. Common English Bible because it’s impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 For it is impossible that with the blood of oxen and goats sin should be taken away. |
One person slaughters an ox, another kills a person; one person sacrifices a lamb, another breaks a dog’s neck; one person offers a grain offering, another offers pig’s blood; one person offers incense, another praises an idol – all these have chosen their ways and delight in their abhorrent practices.
What 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.
Take words of repentance with you and return to the Lord. Say to him, ‘Forgive all our iniquity and accept what is good, so that we may repay you with praise from our lips.
For I desire faithful love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
And to love him with all your heart, with all your understanding, and with all your strength, and to love your neighbour as yourself, is far more important than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices.’
The next day John saw Jesus coming towards him and said, ‘Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
And this will be my covenant with them , when I take away their sins. ,
Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the reality itself of those things, it can never perfect the worshippers by the same sacrifices they continually offer year after year.
Every priest stands day after day ministering and offering the same sacrifices time after time, which can never take away sins.
After he says above, You did not desire or delight in sacrifices and offerings, whole burnt offerings and sin offerings (which are offered according to the law ),
This is a symbol for the present time, during which gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the worshipper’s conscience.
You know that he was revealed so that he might take away sins, , and there is no sin in him.