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.
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.
3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
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- BSB
- For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- 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.
- ASV
- For the law having a shadow of the good [things] to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh.
- DARBY
- For the law, having a shadow of the coming good things, not the image itself of the things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually yearly, perfect those who approach.
- BLB
- For the law, having a shadow of the good things about to be, not the image of the things themselves, every year with the same sacrifices that they offer unto perpetuity, never is able to perfect those coming near.
- ÅB
- For da loven bare har en skygge av de kommende goder, men ikke selve bildet av tingene, så kan den aldri ved de offer som de hvert år alltid på ny bærer fram, gjøre dem fullkomne som kommer fram med dem.
- OTB
- For loven, som bare har en skygge av de gode tingene som skal komme og ikke den faktiske formen av de tingene, kan aldri, ved de samme ofrene som blir tilbudt kontinuerlig år etter år, gjøre fullkomne de som nærmer seg for å tilbe.
- B1930
- For da loven bare har en skygge av de kommende goder, men ikke selve billedet av tingene, så kan den aldri ved de offer som de hvert år alltid på ny bærer frem, gjøre dem fullkomne som kommer frem med dem.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hebrews 8:5
Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
Read in contextColossians 2:17
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Read in contextHebrews 9:11
But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
Read in contextHebrews 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.
Read in contextHebrews 7:18–19
For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
Read in contextHebrews 9:25
Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
Read in contextHebrews 10:11–18
And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
Read in contextHebrews 9:8–9
The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
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