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.

For {G1063} the law {G3551} having {G2192} a shadow {G4639} of good things {G18} to come {G3195}, and not {G3756} the very {G846} image {G1504} of the things {G4229}, can {G1410} never {G3763} with those {G846} sacrifices {G2378} which {G3739} they offered {G4374} year by year {G2596}{G1763} continually {G1519}{G1336} make {G5048} the comers thereunto {G4334} perfect {G5048}.

For the Torah has in it a shadow of the good things to come, but not the actual manifestation of the originals. Therefore, it can never, by means of the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, bring to the goal those who approach the Holy Place to offer them.

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.

For the law having a shadow of the goodthingsto 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.

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Cross-References

  • Hebrews 9:11 (5 votes)

    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;

  • Hebrews 8:5 (5 votes)

    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.

  • Colossians 2:17 (5 votes)

    Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body [is] of Christ.

  • Hebrews 9:23 (3 votes)

    ¶ [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.

  • Hebrews 7:18 (3 votes)

    For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.

  • Hebrews 7:19 (3 votes)

    For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope [did]; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

  • Hebrews 9:25 (1 votes)

    Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;