Hebrews 10:4
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
KJV
ἀδύνατον γὰρ αἷμα ταύρων καὶ τράγων ἀφαιρεῖν ἁμαρτίας.
Greek NT
Impossibile enim est sanguine taurorum et hircorum auferri peccata.
Vulgate
For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
ASV
For it is impossible that with the blood of oxen and goats sin should be taken away.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αἷμα
aima
noun · 97×
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
ταῦρος
tauros
noun · 4×
τράγος
tragos
noun · 4×
ἀδύνατος
adunatos
adjective · 10×
ἀφαιρέω
aphaireo
verb · 10×
ἁμαρτία
amartia
noun · 173×
Themes
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 15:17 — And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
- 1John 3:5 — And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
- 1Sam 15:22 — And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
- Acts 13:38 — Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
- Acts 13:39 — And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
- Amos 5:21 — I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
- Eph 1:7 — In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
- Exod 24:8 — And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
- Gal 1:4 — Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
- Gal 3:13 — Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
- Heb 9:9 — Which 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;
- Heb 9:12 — Neither 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.
- Heb 9:12 — Neither 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.
- Heb 9:19 — For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all
- Heb 9:23 — It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
- Heb 9:26 — For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
- Heb 10:6 — In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
- Heb 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;
- Heb 10:11 — And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
- Heb 10:11 — And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
- Hos 6:6 — For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
- Hos 14:2 — Take 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.
- Hos 14:2 — Take 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.
- Isa 1:11 — 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 lamb
- Jer 7:21 — Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
- Job 42:8 — Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I
- John 1:17 — For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
- John 1:29 — The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
- John 13:8 — Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.
- Lev 1:4 — And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
- Lev 4:29 — And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.
- Lev 16:14 — And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.
- 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 s
- Matt 26:28 — For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
- Mic 6:6 — 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?
- Num 8:12 — And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to make an atonement for the L
- Num 19:21 — And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.
- Ps 50:8 — I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
- Ps 50:9 — I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
- Ps 51:16 — For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.