Cross references

Hebrews 10:4

because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Hebrews 10:4 BSB

Hebrews 10:4 has 18 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 13 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Hebrews 10:11 (20 votes) and Isaiah 1:11–15 (18 votes). 53 other verses point back to it. It links with 27 other books, from Exodus 24 to 1 John 3.

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Which verses does Hebrews 10:4 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

  2. “What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts? …

  3. With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves? Would the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I present my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? …

  4. And this is My covenant with them when I take away their sins.”

  5. 1 John 3:57 votes

    But you know that Christ appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.

  6. Mark 12:336 votes

    and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself. This is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

  7. In the passage above He says, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not desire, nor did You delight in them” (although they are offered according to the law).

  8. For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.

  9. Hosea 6:65 votes

    For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

  10. “I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.

  11. John 1:295 votes
  12. It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper.

  13. He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean,

  14. Hosea 14:23 votes
  15. I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me. I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens, …

Which verses point to Hebrews 10:4?

The 10 strongest of 53.