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Hebrews 10:11

Every Jewish priest performs his services every day and offers the same sacrifices many times; but these sacrifices can never take away sins.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Atonement;   Law;   Offerings;   Priest;   Types;   Thompson Chain Reference - Dedication;   Offerings;   Sin;   The Topic Concordance - Jesus Christ;   Justification;   Law;   Obedience;   Reconciliation;   Righteousness;   Sacrifice;   Sanctification;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - High Priest, the;   Law of Moses, the;   Priests;   Sacrifices;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Abihu;   Law;   Testament;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Consecration;   Day of atonement;   Leviticus;   Priest;   Sacrifice;   Type, typology;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Church, the;   Sanctification;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Atonement;   Covenant;   Peace;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Hebrews, the Epistle to the;   Lord's Supper;   Minister;   Sacrifice;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Forgiveness;   Hebrews;   Reconcilation;   Religion;   Scapegoat;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ascension;   Atonement;   Hebrews, Epistle to;   Minister;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Ascension;   Day of Atonement ;   Guilt (2);   Hebrews Epistle to the;   Minister Ministry;   Minister, Ministration;   Obedience (2);   Priest;   Priest (2);   Propitiation (2);   Sacrifice;   Sacrifice (2);   Session;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Atonement, Day of;   Hebrews, Epistle to the;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Christ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Law;   Offering;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Hebrews;   Sacrifice;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Melchizedek;   Priesthood, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Accommodation;   Hebrews, Epistle to the;   Priesthood in the New Testament;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for November 26;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Every priest stands day after day ministering and offering the same sacrifices time after time, which can never take away sins.
King James Version (1611)
And euery Priest standeth dayly ministring and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices which can neuer take away sinnes.
King James Version
And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
English Standard Version
And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
New American Standard Bible
Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;
New Century Version
Every day the priests stand and do their religious service, often offering the same sacrifices. Those sacrifices can never take away sins.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;
Legacy Standard Bible
And every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;
Berean Standard Bible
Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
Contemporary English Version
The priests do their work each day, and they keep on offering sacrifices that can never take away sins.
Complete Jewish Bible
Now every cohen stands every day doing his service, offering over and over the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
Darby Translation
And every priest stands daily ministering, and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
Easy-to-Read Version
Every day the priests stand and do their religious service. Again and again they offer the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And euery Priest standeth dayly ministring, and oft times offreth one maner of offring, which can neuer take away sinnes:
George Lamsa Translation
For every high priest appointed ministered daily, offering the same sacrifices, which had never been able to cleanse sins:
Lexham English Bible
And every priest stands every day serving and offering the same sacrifices many times, which are never able to take away sins.
Literal Translation
And indeed every priest stands day by day ministering, and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
Amplified Bible
Every priest stands [at his altar of service] ministering daily, offering the same sacrifices over and over, which are never able to strip away sins [that envelop and cover us];
American Standard Version
And every priest indeed standeth day by day ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, the which can never take away sins:
Bible in Basic English
And every priest takes his place at the altar day by day, doing what is necessary, and making again and again the same offerings which are never able to take away sins.
Hebrew Names Version
Every Kohen indeed stands day by day ministering and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,
International Standard Version
Day after day every priest stands and repeatedly offers the same sacrifices that can never take away sins.Numbers 28:3; Hebrews 7:4,27;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
For every high priest who stood and ministered every day, offered the same sacrifices, which can never purify (from) sins.
Murdock Translation
For every high priest who stood and ministered daily, offered again and again the same sacrifices, which never were sufficient to purge away sins.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And euery priest standeth dayly ministryng, & offeryng oftentymes the same sacrifices, whiche can neuer take away sinnes.
English Revised Version
And every priest indeed standeth day by day ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, the which can never take away sins:
World English Bible
Every priest indeed stands day by day ministering and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And every priest standeth daily ministring and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
Weymouth's New Testament
And while every priest stands ministering, day after day, and constantly offering the same sacrifices--though such can never rid us of our sins--
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And ech prest is redi mynystrynge ech dai, and ofte tymes offringe the same sacrifices, whiche moun neuere do awei synnes.
Update Bible Version
And every priest indeed stands day by day ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, the which can never take away sins:
Webster's Bible Translation
And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
New English Translation
And every priest stands day after day serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again—sacrifices that can never take away sins.
New King James Version
And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
New Living Translation
Under the old covenant, the priest stands and ministers before the altar day after day, offering the same sacrifices again and again, which can never take away sins.
New Life Bible
All Jewish religious leaders stand every day killing animals and giving gifts on the altar. They give the same gifts over and over again. These gifts cannot take away sins.
New Revised Standard
And every priest stands day after day at his service, offering again and again the same sacrifices that can never take away sins.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, every priest, indeed, standeth daily publicly ministering, and the same sacrifices ofttimes offering, the which never can clear away sins;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And every priest indeed standeth daily ministering and often offering the same sacrifices which can never take away sins.
Revised Standard Version
And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And every prest is redy dayly ministrynge and ofte tymes offereth one maner of offerynge which can never take awaye synnes.
Young's Literal Translation
and every priest, indeed, hath stood daily serving, and the same sacrifices many times offering, that are never able to take away sins.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And euery prest is ready daylie mynistringe, and oftymes offereth one maner of offerynges, which can neuer take awaye synnes.
Mace New Testament (1729)
While the high priest in his daily administrations frequently repeated the same sacrifices which could by no means expiate sin;
THE MESSAGE
Every priest goes to work at the altar each day, offers the same old sacrifices year in, year out, and never makes a dent in the sin problem. As a priest, Christ made a single sacrifice for sins, and that was it! Then he sat down right beside God and waited for his enemies to cave in. It was a perfect sacrifice by a perfect person to perfect some very imperfect people. By that single offering, he did everything that needed to be done for everyone who takes part in the purifying process. The Holy Spirit confirms this: This new plan I'm making with Israel isn't going to be written on paper, isn't going to be chiseled in stone; This time "I'm writing out the plan in them, carving it on the lining of their hearts." He concludes, I'll forever wipe the slate clean of their sins. Once sins are taken care of for good, there's no longer any need to offer sacrifices for them.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Under the old code, a man of God would stand before the altar and do the same thing again and again and again, but it never took away one sin.

Contextual Overview

7 Then I said, ‘Here I am, to do your will, O God, just as it is written of me in the book of the Law.'" 8 First he said, "You neither want nor are you pleased with sacrifices and offerings or with animals burned on the altar and the sacrifices to take away sins." He said this even though all these sacrifices are offered according to the Law. 9 Then he said, "Here I am, O God, to do your will." So God does away with all the old sacrifices and puts the sacrifice of Christ in their place. 10 Because Jesus Christ did what God wanted him to do, we are all purified from sin by the offering that he made of his own body once and for all. 11 Every Jewish priest performs his services every day and offers the same sacrifices many times; but these sacrifices can never take away sins. 12 Christ, however, offered one sacrifice for sins, an offering that is effective forever, and then he sat down at the right side of God. 13 There he now waits until God puts his enemies as a footstool under his feet. 14 With one sacrifice, then, he has made perfect forever those who are purified from sin. 15 And the Holy Spirit also gives us his witness. First he says, 16 "This is the covenant that I will make with them in the days to come, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts and write them on their minds."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

daily: Hebrews 7:27, Exodus 29:38, Exodus 29:39, Numbers 28:3, Numbers 28:24, Numbers 29:6, Ezekiel 45:4, Daniel 8:11, Daniel 9:21, Daniel 9:27, Daniel 11:31, Daniel 12:11, Luke 1:9, Luke 1:10

which: Hebrews 10:4, Psalms 50:8-13, Isaiah 1:11

Reciprocal: Exodus 29:36 - every day Leviticus 1:5 - the priests Leviticus 8:34 - General Nehemiah 10:33 - the continual burnt Acts 13:39 - from which 1 Corinthians 15:3 - Christ Ephesians 5:2 - as Hebrews 1:14 - ministering Hebrews 5:1 - every Hebrews 7:26 - such Hebrews 9:9 - that could Hebrews 10:1 - with Hebrews 11:40 - they without

Cross-References

Genesis 10:1
These are the descendants of Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. These three had sons after the flood.
Genesis 10:10
At first his kingdom included Babylon, Erech, and Accad, all three of them in Babylonia.
Numbers 24:22
But you Kenites will be destroyed When Assyria takes you captive."
Numbers 24:24
Invaders will sail from Cyprus; They will conquer Assyria and Eber, But they, in turn, will perish forever."
2 Kings 19:36
Then the Assyrian emperor Sennacherib withdrew and returned to Nineveh.
Ezra 4:2
So they went to see Zerubbabel and the heads of the clans and said, "Let us join you in building the Temple. We worship the same God you worship, and we have been offering sacrifices to him ever since Emperor Esarhaddon of Assyria sent us here to live."
Psalms 83:8
Assyria has also joined them as a strong ally of the Ammonites and Moabites, the descendants of Lot.
Isaiah 37:37
Then the Assyrian emperor Sennacherib withdrew and returned to Nineveh.
Ezekiel 27:23
The cities of Haran, Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, the cities of Asshur and Chilmad—they all traded with you.
Ezekiel 32:22
"Assyria is there, with the graves of her soldiers all around. They were all killed in battle,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And every priest standeth daily ministering,.... The Alexandrian copy, one of Stephens's, the Complutensian edition, the Syriac and Ethiopic versions, read, "every high priest"; who might minister daily, if he would; but since the daily sacrifice was generally offered by the common priests, these are rather designed. The apostle passes from the anniversary sacrifices offered by the high priest on the day of atonement, having shown the insufficiency and imperfection of them, to the lambs of the daily sacrifice, which were offered morning and evening, and whatsoever else might be daily offered on other accounts; and which he also shows are equally ineffectual to take away sin; almost every word he uses shows the imperfection of the priesthood of Aaron, and serves to illustrate the priesthood of Christ. When he says "every priest", it supposes there were more than one, as indeed there were many, not only in succession to one another, but together, having different parts of service to perform; and everyone of them "standeth" at the altar, showing that his work was not done; and the present tense is used, because sacrifice in fact had not ceased at the writing of this epistle, though of right it ought to have done; and he stood "daily ministering"; every day, and sometimes often in a day, and always morning and night, Exodus 29:38 The priest always stood to minister, Deuteronomy 18:5. Hence the Jews say t, there is no ministration or service, אלא מעומד, "but standing"; and perhaps some reference may be had to מעמדות, the "stations" u, or stationary men, who were always upon the spot at Jerusalem, to offer for such as were at a distance.

And offering oftentimes the same sacrifices; as a lamb in the morning, and another at evening; and if it was a burnt offering, or a sin offering, or an offering for the purification of a woman, or for the cleansing of the leper, they were always the same: and this frequent offering, and the offering of the same things, show that they were such

which can never take away sins; for notwithstanding these many and repeated offerings, even the sins of Old Testament saints remained to be atoned for by Christ; see Romans 3:25.

t Jarchi in Deut. xviii. 5. Maimon. Biath Hamikdash, c. 5. sect. 16. u Misn. Taanith, c. 4. sect. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And every priest standeth daily ministering - That is, this is done every day. It does not mean literally that every priest was daily concerned in offering sacrifices, for they took turns according to their courses, (notes on Luke 1:5), but that this was done each day, and that every priest was to take his regular place in doing it; Numbers 28:3. The object of the apostle is to prove that under the Jewish economy sacrifices were repeated constantly, showing their imperfection, but that under the Christian economy the great sacrifice had been offered once, which was sufficient for all.

And offering oftentimes the same sacrifices - The same sacrifices were offered morning and evening every day.

Which can never take away sins - notes, Hebrews 9:9; Hebrews 10:1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hebrews 10:11. Every priest standeth — The office of the Jewish priest is here compared with the office of our High Priest. The Jewish priest stands daily at the altar, like a servant ministering, repeating the same sacrifices; our High Priest offered himself once for all, and sat down at the right hand of God, as the only-begotten Son and Heir of all things, Hebrews 10:12. This continual offering argued the imperfection of the sacrifices. Our Lord's once offering, proves his was complete.


 
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