Hebrews 10:16 — Meaning and Application

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“This {is} the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;”

Hebrews 10:16

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For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

{Whereof} the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,

This {is} the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. {And their: some copies have, Then he said, And their}

Now where remission of these {is, there is} no more offering for sin.

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Hebrews 10:1

"For the law having a shadow of good things to come, {and} not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect."

Hebrews 10:2

"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.}"

Hebrews 10:3

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

Hebrews 10:4

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

Hebrews 10:5

"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 10:6

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

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