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Hebrews 10:5 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: "
Hebrews 10:5
Verse in Context
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But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
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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."
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 10:6
"In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure."
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