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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;

KJV

ἀνώτερον λέγων ὅτι θυσίας καὶ προσφορὰς καὶ ὁλοκαυτώματα καὶ περὶ ἁμαρτίας οὐκ ἠθέλησας οὐδὲ ηὐδόκησας, αἵτινες κατὰ νόμον προσφέρονται,

Greek NT

Superius dicens : Quia hostias, et oblationes, et holocautomata pro peccato noluisti, nec placita sunt tibi, quæ secundum legem offeruntur,

Vulgate

Saying above, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings andsacrificesfor sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein (the which are offered according to the law),

ASV

In saying before, Sacrifices, and oblations, and holocausts for sin thou wouldest not, neither are they pleasing to thee, which are offered according to the law.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

εὐδοκέω
eudokeo
verb · 21×
θέλω
thelo
verb · 208×
θυσία
thusia
noun · 28×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κατά
kata
preposition · 470×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
νόμος
nomos
noun · 196×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
οὐδέ
oude
conjunction · 137×
περί
peri
preposition · 335×
προσφέρω
prosphero
verb · 49×
προσφορά
prosphora
noun · 9×
ἀνώτερος
anoteros
adjective · 2×
ἁμαρτία
amartia
noun · 173×
ὁλοκαύτωμα
olokautoma
noun · 3×
ὅστις
ostis
relative_pronoun · 146×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: Θυσίας καὶ προσφορὰς | WH/Treg/NIV: Θυσίας καὶ προσφορὰς | RP: Θυσίαν καὶ προσφορὰν
  • Θυσίας καὶ προσφορὰςSBLGNT
  • Θυσίας καὶ προσφορὰςWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • Θυσίαν καὶ προσφορὰνRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: νόμον | WH/Treg/NIV: νόμον | RP: τόν νόμον
  • νόμονSBLGNT
  • νόμονWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • τόν νόμονRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§606The Son of God, who came down "from heaven, not to do (his) own will, but the will of him who sent (him)",413 said on coming into the world, "Lo, I have come to do your will, O God." "and by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all."414 From the first moment of his Incarnation the Son embraces the Father's plan of divine sa…
1. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He has consecrated for us. Having shown the difference of the High Priest, and of the sacrifices, and of the tabernacle, and of the Covenant, and of the promise, and that the difference is great, since those are temporal, but these eternal, those near to vanish…

Cross-references

  • Col 2:14 — Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
  • Heb 10:4 — For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
  • Heb 10:5 — Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
  • Lev 1:3 — If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Rom 10:4 — For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.