Hebrews 10:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

Hebrews 10:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Malachi 1:10
Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
Matthew 3:17
And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Ephesians 5:2
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
Psalms 147:11
The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
Philippians 4:18
But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.

Topics

Animals Atonement Blood Bread Bull Cattle Consecration Daily Offering

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

Here the apostle, by the direction of the Spirit of God, sets himself to lay low the Levitical dispensation; for though it was of divine appointment, and very excellent and useful in its time and place, yet, when it was set up in competition with Christ, to whom it was only designed to lead the people, it was very proper and necessary to show the weakness and imperfection of it, which the apostle…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. burnt offerings--Greek, “whole burnt offerings.” thou hast had no pleasure--as if these could in themselves atone for sin: God had pleasure in (Greek, “approved,” or “was well pleased with”) them, in so far as they were an act of obedience to His positive command under the Old Testament, but not as having an intrinsic efficacy such as Christ’s sacrifice had. Contrast Mt 3:17.