Hebrews 10:4 Cross References

Hebrews 10:4

4: For it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Isaiah 1:11

  1. "I am sick of your sacrifices," says the LORD. "Don't bring me any more burnt offerings! I don't want the fat from your rams or other animals. I don't want to see the blood from your offerings of bulls and rams and goats.
  2. Why do you keep parading through my courts with your worthless sacrifices?
  3. The incense you bring me is a stench in my nostrils! Your celebrations of the new moon and the Sabbath day, and your special days for fasting--even your most pious meetings--are all sinful and false. I want nothing more to do with them.
  4. I hate all your festivals and sacrifices. I cannot stand the sight of them!
  5. From now on, when you lift up your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look. Even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen. For your hands are covered with the blood of your innocent victims.

Hebrews 10:11

  1. Under the old covenant, the priest stands before the altar day after day, offering sacrifices that can never take away sins.

Micah 6:6

  1. What can we bring to the LORD to make up for what we've done? Should we bow before God with offerings of yearling calves?
  2. Should we offer him thousands of rams and tens of thousands of rivers of olive oil? Would that please the LORD? Should we sacrifice our firstborn children to pay for the sins of our souls? Would that make him glad?
  3. No, O people, the LORD has already told you what is good, and this is what he requires: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.

1 John 3:5

  1. And you know that Jesus came to take away our sins, for there is no sin in him.

Romans 11:27

  1. And then I will keep my covenant with them and take away their sins."

Hebrews 9:9

  1. This is an illustration pointing to the present time. For the gifts and sacrifices that the priests offer are not able to cleanse the consciences of the people who bring them.

John 1:29

  1. The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look! There is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

Hebrews 10:8

  1. Christ said, "You did not want animal sacrifices or grain offerings or animals burned on the altar or other offerings for sin, nor were you pleased with them" (though they are required by the law of Moses).

Mark 12:33

  1. And I know it is important to love him with all my heart and all my understanding and all my strength, and to love my neighbors as myself. This is more important than to offer all of the burnt offerings and sacrifices required in the law."

Hebrews 9:12

  1. Once for all time he took blood into that Most Holy Place, but not the blood of goats and calves. He took his own blood, and with it he secured our salvation forever.
  2. Under the old system, the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow could cleanse people's bodies from ritual defilement.

Hosea 14:2

  1. Bring your petitions, and return to the LORD. Say to him, "Forgive all our sins and graciously receive us, so that we may offer you the sacrifice of praise.

Amos 5:21

  1. "I hate all your show and pretense--the hypocrisy of your religious festivals and solemn assemblies.
  2. I will not accept your burnt offerings and grain offerings. I won't even notice all your choice peace offerings.

Jeremiah 6:20

  1. There is no use now in offering me sweet incense from Sheba. Keep your expensive perfumes! I cannot accept your burnt offerings. Your sacrifices have no sweet fragrance for me."

Hosea 6:6

  1. I want you to be merciful; I don't want your sacrifices. I want you to know God; that's more important than burnt offerings.

Psalms 51:16

  1. You would not be pleased with sacrifices, or I would bring them. If I brought you a burnt offering, you would not accept it.

Jeremiah 7:21

  1. This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: "Away with your burnt offerings and sacrifices! Eat them yourselves!
  2. When I led your ancestors out of Egypt, it was not burnt offerings and sacrifices I wanted from them.

Isaiah 66:3

  1. But those who choose their own ways, delighting in their sins, are cursed. Their offerings will not be accepted. When such people sacrifice an ox, it is no more acceptable than a human sacrifice. When they sacrifice a lamb or bring an offering of grain, it is as bad as putting a dog or the blood of a pig on the altar! When they burn incense, it is as if they had blessed an idol.

Psalms 50:8

  1. I have no complaint about your sacrifices or the burnt offerings you constantly bring to my altar.
  2. But I want no more bulls from your barns; I want no more goats from your pens.
  3. For all the animals of the forest are mine, and I own the cattle on a thousand hills.
  4. Every bird of the mountains and all the animals of the field belong to me.
  5. If I were hungry, I would not mention it to you, for all the world is mine and everything in it.
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