Thematic Bible: Were offered
Thematic Bible
Sacrifices » Were offered » By the patriarchs
Sacrifices » Were offered » Yearly
Sacrifices » Were offered » In faith of a coming saviour
By faith Abel offered a sacrifice more acceptable to God than Cain did, for by it he was approved as an upright man, since God approved him for the offering he made; and by it he still continues to speak, though dead.
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By faith Abraham, when he was put to the test, offered Isaac as a sacrifice; that is, he who had received the promise was starting to offer as a sacrifice his only son,
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By faith he instituted the Passover and the pouring of blood upon the doorposts, so that the destroyer of the first-born might not touch them.
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Sacrifices » Were offered » For the whole nation
Sacrifices » Were offered » After the departure of israel from egypt
Sacrifices » Were offered » Under the mosaic dispensation
For since the law cast only a shadow of the blessings to come and did not possess the reality itself of those blessings, the priests with the same sacrifices that are perpetually offered year after year cannot make perfect those who come to worship. Otherwise, would they not have ceased offering them, because those who offered them, having once been purified, would have had no further consciousness of sins? On the other hand, through these sacrifices there is given a real reminder of their sins,