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Hebrews 10:1 KJV
Hebrews · chapter 10 · verse 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 10:1 · King James Version
Hebrews 10:1 in context
1For 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.
2For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
3But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- sacrificesthysiaa sacrifice, victimG2378 →
- offeredprospherōto bring to, lead to, one to a person who can heal him or is ready to show him some…G4374 →
- havingechōto haveG2192 →
- shadowskiashadow, shade caused by the interception of light, an image cast by an object and…G4639 →
- imageeikōnan image, figure, likeness, an image of the things , used of the moral likeness of…G1504 →
- neveroudepoteneverG3763 →
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