Hebrews 10:2

Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once and for all and would no longer have any consciousness of their sins?

Text-Critical English NT

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

1Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of those things, the same sacrifices offered year after year can never perfect those who draw near to worship.

3But year after year they are reminded of their sins by these sacrifices.

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Cross References

Hebrews 10:17Later he says, “And their sins and their lawless deeds 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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