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Hebrews 10:8 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in them” (those which are offered according to the law), "
Hebrews 10:8
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6 You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.
7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’”
8 Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in them” (those which are offered according to the law),
9 then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,
10 by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
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Hebrews 10:1
"For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near."
Hebrews 10:2
"Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?"
Hebrews 10:3
"But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins."
Hebrews 10:4
"For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins."
Hebrews 10:5
"Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me."
Hebrews 10:6
"You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin."
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