Hebrews 10:6
in Hebrews 10In burnt offerings and sin offerings You took no delight.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
In whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hadst no pleasure:
KJV
In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
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This verse in Hebrews 10
Commentary
12 notes on this verseNeither burnt offerings, nor offerings for sins "You desired," nor deemed worthy of acceptance. The names of the sacrifices were various, evidently due to various reasons: some were for sins (Lev. 4:3), others for trespasses (Lev. 6:5), others for salvation (Num. 6:14), others for mercy …
This site's exposition
a body hast thou prepared me
on Hebrews 10:5-7
Psalm 40:6-8 is placed in the Son's own mouth at his coming into the world, and the letter follows the Greek Septuagint's wording, a body hast thou prepared me, against the Hebrew Masoretic Text's mine ears hast thou opened, a genuine textual difference the exposition keeps rather than smooths away. Both readings carry the same sense, an ear opened to obey and a body prepared to obey are one act described two ways, and the letter's own argument needs the body specifically, since it is about to speak of an actual offering, once for all, of the body of Jesus Christ. Verse 7 completes the quotation, Lo, I come, in the volume of the book it is written of me, to do thy will, O God, obedience named as the true offering the Levitical system only pictured.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers3 voices
"for sin." That is, an offering concerning sin. Commonly, you have taken pleasure. And he rightly says, "for sin." For of the sacrifices, some were offered for salvation, and others for sin; as if he said, "Since in no way did you will any offering …
"Wherefore when He cometh into the world, He saith, Sacrifice and offering Thou wouldest not, but a body hast Thou prepared Me. In burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin Thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo! I come, in the volume of the book it is written of Me, to do Thy will, O God." The types therefore contain the figure only, not the power; just as in images, the image has the figure of the man, not the power. So that the reality and the type have somewhat in common with one another. For the figure exists equally in both, but not the power.
A commentator
John ChrysostomDISCOURSES AGAINST JUDAIZING CHRISTIANS 7.2.1-7 · Written in the 5th century.
proposed
Do you see that the law takes its force from the place? And, since the city is gone, there can no longer be a priesthood. There can be no emperor if there are no armies, no crown, no purple robe, none of the other things that weld together an empire. So, too, there can be no priesthood if sacrifice has been destroyed, if offerings are forbidden, if the sanctuary has been trampled into the dust, if everything that constituted it has disappeared. For the priesthood depended on all these things.…That great and wonderful prophet, David … made it clear that the one kind of sacrifice would be abolished and another brought in to take its place when he said, "You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! Were I to proclaim and tell of them, they would be more than can be numbered." See how wise the prophet is. He said, "You have multiplied your wondrous deeds," and he stood aghast at God's power to work miracles. But he did not go on to tell us about the creation of the things we see—of heaven, earth, and oceans, of water in Egypt or of any other miracles like those. What did he say were wondrous works? "Sacrifice and offering you do not desire." … David went on to say, "But a body you have fitted to me." By this he meant the Lord's body which became the common sacrifice for the whole world, the sacrifice which cleansed our souls, canceled sin, put down death, opened heaven, gave us many great hopes and made ready all the other things which Paul knew well and spoke of when he exclaimed, "O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! […]
The Medieval Church2 voices
A commentator
Photios I of ConstantinopleFRAGMENTS ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS 10.5-9 · Written before 893.
proposed
Christ spoke, "while coming into the world," not "after he had entered it." But manifestly he was already entering it when he promised David and maintained that he would seat one from the fruit of his loins on his throne until the age would come. …
In burnt offerings and sin offerings thou hast taken no pleasure. It is a greater thing to please than to will, because those things please which something causes us to will; but sometimes we will certain things not for their own sake but for something …
5 more voices on this verse
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin,....
He raises and exalts the priesthood of Christ very high, that he might effectually recommend him and his gospel to them,
The Nineteenth Century3 voices
Thou hast had no pleasure - Thou couldst never be pleased with the victims under the law; thou couldst never consider them as atonements for sin; as they could never satisfy thy justice, nor make thy law honorable.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
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.
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A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
In burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure - This is not quoted literally from the Psalm, but the sense is retained. The reading there is, “burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required.” The quotation by the apostle is taken from the Septuagint, with the change of a single word, which does not materially affect the sense - the word ὀυκ ἐυδόκησας ouk eudokēsas - “ouk eudokesas” - “thou hast no pleasure,” instead of ὀυκ ἠθέλησας ouk ēthelēsas - “ouk ethelesas” - “thou dost not will.” The idea is, that God had no pleasure in them as compared with obedience. He preferred the latter, and they could not be made to come in the place of it, or to answer the same purpose. When they were performed with a pure heart, he was doubtless pleased with the offering. As used here in reference to the Messiah, the meaning is, that they would not be what was required of “him.” Such offerings would not answer the end for which he was sent into the world, for that end was to be accomplished only by his being “obedient unto death.”
The words behind it
6 Greek wordsEvery Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Greek | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ὁλοκαυτώματα | holokautomata | Burnt offerings | G3646 → | |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 → | 9120 times |
| περὶ | peri | [offerings] for | G4012 → | 332 times |
| ἁμαρτίας | hamartias | sin | G266 → | 173 times |
| οὐκ | ouk | not | G3756 → | 1664 times |
| εὐδόκησας· | eudokesas | You have delighted in; | G2106 → | 21 times |
ὁλοκαυτώματαBurnt offerings
holokautomataG3646 →
καὶand
kaiG2532 →9120 times
περὶ[offerings] for
periG4012 →332 times
ἁμαρτίαςsin
hamartiasG266 →173 times
οὐκnot
oukG3756 →1664 times
εὐδόκησας·You have delighted in;
eudokesasG2106 →21 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Matthew 3:17And a voice from heaven said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!”
it leads to
- Isaiah 42:1
“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.
- Matthew 17:5
While Peter was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!”
- Psalms 2:7
I will proclaim the decree spoken to Me by the LORD: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.
- Isaiah 42:1
Through
Ephesians 5:2and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
it leads to
- John 13:34
A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.
- Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved…
- Colossians 3:14
And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.
- 2 Corinthians 2:15
For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.
- John 13:34
Through
Hebrews 10:4because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
it leads to
- Hebrews 10:11
Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
- Hebrews 10:11
Where this verse is studied
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- The Binding of Isaac (Genesis 22)
- The General Epistles
- The Covenants
- Eternal Security, and the Five Warnings of Hebrews
- The Messianic Psalms
- The Tabernacle
- The Ascension: Acts 1:1-11 · Luke 24:50-53
- The Blood
- The Door & the Gate
- The Just Shall Live by His Faith: Habakkuk 2:4
- The Right Hand
- The Shadow
- Types of Christ
About Hebrews

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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Chrysostom, Homily on Hebrews 17; John Chrysostom, DISCOURSES AGAINST JUDAIZING CHRISTIANS 7.2.1-7; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible; Oecumenius, The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews; Photios I of Constantinople, FRAGMENTS ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS 10.5-9; Theophylact of Ohrid, Commentary on Hebrews and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Hebrews.
