Hebrews 10:2

Otherwise wouldn't the sacrifices have stopped being offered? If the worshipers had been made clean once and for all, they wouldn't have had guilty consciences any longer.

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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

1The law is just a shadow of the good that was to come, and not the actual reality. So it can never through the repeated sacrifices offered year after year make right those who come to worship God.

3But in fact those sacrifices remind people of sins year after year,

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Cross References

Isaiah 43:25I, yes I am the God who wipes out your sins because of who I am, and who doesn't remember your sins any more.

Micah 7:19You will have compassion on us again. You will tread our sins under your feet, and you will throw our sins into the depths of the sea.

Hebrews 10:17“I won't remember their sins and lawlessness anymore.”

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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