Hebrews 10:2

Otherwise, would the sacrifices not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed one time and would no longer have any consciousness of sin.

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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

1For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the real forms of those things themselves. Those who approach God can never be made perfect by the same sacrifices that the priests continually bring year after year.

3But with those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year.

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Cross References

Isaiah 43:25I, yes, I, am he who blots out your offenses for my own sake; and I will not call to mind your sins any longer. 1

Micah 7:19You will again have compassion on us; 1 you will trample our iniquities under your feet. 1 You will throw all our sins into the depths of the sea. 1

Hebrews 10:17Their sins and lawless deeds 2 I will remember no longer.”

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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