Hebrews 10:3

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.

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

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

5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared 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 into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:

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  • Exodus 30:10

    And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the LORD.

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  • Leviticus 23:27–28

    Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

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  • Leviticus 16:34

    And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.

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  • Leviticus 16:6–11

    And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house.

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  • Leviticus 16:29–30

    And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:

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  • 1 Kings 17:18

    And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?

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  • Leviticus 16:21–22

    And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:

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