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

Hebrews 10:4 · KJV

“For {it is} not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.”

— Hebrews 10:4

But in those {sacrifices there is} a remembrance again {made} of sins every year.

Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: {hast...: or, thou hast fitted me}

Hebrews 10 — Context

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. {would...: or, they would have ceased to be offered, because, etc.}

But in those {sacrifices there is} a remembrance again {made} of sins every year.

For {it is} not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: {hast...: or, thou hast fitted me}

In burnt offerings and {sacrifices} for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

Cross References

Hebrews 10:11

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

Isaiah 1:11-15

To 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. {he goats: Heb. great he goats}

Micah 6:6-8

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? {of a...: Heb. sons of a year?}

Romans 11:27

For this {is} my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

1 John 3:5

And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.

Mark 12:33

And 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.

Hebrews 10:8

Above 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;

Amos 5:21-22

I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. {in...: or, your holy days}