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Hebrews 10:4

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For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
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  1. Hebrews 10:11Rank 1 from verse 4
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    11And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

  2. Isaiah 1:11–15Rank 2 from verse 4
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    11To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

    12When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

    13Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

    14Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

    15And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

  3. Micah 6:6–8Rank 3 from verse 4
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    6¶ Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?

    7Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

    8He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

  4. Romans 11:27Rank 4 from verse 4
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    27For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

  5. 1 John 3:5Rank 5 from verse 4
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    5And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.

  6. Hebrews 10:8Rank 6 from verse 4
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    8Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;

  7. Mark 12:33Rank 7 from verse 4
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    33And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

  8. Amos 5:21–22Rank 8 from verse 4
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    21¶ I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

    22Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.

  9. Hebrews 9:9Rank 9 from verse 4
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    9Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;

  10. Hosea 6:6Rank 10 from verse 4
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    6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

  11. John 1:29Rank 11 from verse 4
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    29¶ The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

  12. Psalms 51:16Rank 12 from verse 4
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    16For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

  13. Hebrews 9:12–13Rank 13 from verse 4
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    12Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

    13For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:

  14. Hosea 14:2Rank 14 from verse 4
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    2Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.

  15. Jeremiah 7:21–22Rank 15 from verse 4
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    21¶ Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.

    22For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

  16. Isaiah 66:3Rank 16 from verse 4
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    3He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.

  17. Jeremiah 6:20Rank 17 from verse 4
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    20To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.

  18. Psalms 50:8–12Rank 18 from verse 4
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    8I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

    9I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.

    10For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

    11I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

    12If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

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Hebrews 10:4

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

blood

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Sense 1: The bodily fluid associated with physical life. Sense 2: Life taken, bloodshed, or guilt and responsibility for it. Sense 3: Kindred, shared human descent, or natural human nature. Sense 4: The juice of grapes.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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should

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A verb expressing duty, propriety, expectation, intention, purpose, condition, appointed outcome, or a future event viewed from another time or statement.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

take

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To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

sins

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Transgressions or offences against God and his law, and the guilt for them.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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10:1FOR the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

10:2For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

10:3But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.

10:4For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

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10:5Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

10:6In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

10:7Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

10:8Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;

10:9Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

10:10By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

10:11And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

10:12But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

10:13From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

10:14For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

10:15Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,

10:16This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

10:17And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

10:18Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

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