Hebrews 10:2

If it could, would not the offerings have ceased? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt the guilt of their sins.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

In Context

1For 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.

3Instead, those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins,

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Cross References

Isaiah 43:25I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.

Micah 7:19He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.

Hebrews 10:17Then He adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 10:2-7

The Priesthood of Christ. ( a. d. 62.) 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. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. 3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of… Read the whole commentary →

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