Hebrews 10:3
1 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.
2 If it could, would not the offerings have ceased? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt the guilt of their sins.
Instead, those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins,
4 because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Instead, those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins,
- KJV
- But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
- WEB
- But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins.
- ASV
- But in those [sacrifices] there is a remembrance made of sins year by year.
- DARBY
- But in these [there is] a calling to mind of sins yearly.
- BLB
- But in these [is] a reminder of sins every year.
- ÅB
- Men ved dem kommer hvert år en minnelse om synder;
- OTB
- Men i de ofrene er det en årlig påminnelse om synder.
- B1930
- Men ved dem kommer hvert år en minnelse om synder;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hebrews 9:7
But only the high priest entered the second room, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.
Read in contextExodus 30:10
Once a year Aaron shall make atonement on the horns of the altar. Throughout your generations he shall make atonement on it annually with the blood of the sin offering of atonement. The altar is most holy to the LORD.”
Read in contextLeviticus 23:27–28
“The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You shall hold a sacred assembly and humble yourselves, and present an offering made by fire to the LORD.
Read in contextLeviticus 16:34
This is to be a permanent statute for you, to make atonement once a year for the Israelites because of all their sins.” And all this was done as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Read in contextLeviticus 16:6–11
Aaron is to present the bull for his sin offering and make atonement for himself and his household.
Read in contextLeviticus 16:29–30
This is to be a permanent statute for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month, you shall humble yourselves and not do any work—whether the native or the foreigner who resides among you—
Read in context1 Kings 17:18
“O man of God,” said the woman to Elijah, “what have you done to me? Have you come to remind me of my iniquity and cause the death of my son?”
Read in contextLeviticus 16:21–22
Then he is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities and rebellious acts of the Israelites in regard to all their sins. He is to put them on the goat’s head and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man appointed for the task.
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