Hebrews 10:2

For then they would have ceased to be offered, because the sacrificers, being once purified, would no longer retain any consciousness of sins.

1770 John Worsley 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

1For the law having but a faint shadow of good things to come, and not the full image of the things, can never, even by the great annual sacrifices which they offer statedly, make the comers thereunto perfect.

3Whereas in these very sacrifices there is a recalling of sins to mind every year.

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Cross References

Hebrews 10:17He adds, and their sins and their iniquities 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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