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Hebrews 10:2
2Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins.
Hebrews 10:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?
- New King James Version (NKJV)For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins.
- New Living Translation (NLT)If they could have provided perfect cleansing, the sacrifices would have stopped, for the worshipers would have been purified once for all time, and their feelings of guilt would have disappeared.
Context of Hebrews 10:2
1The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. 3But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins. 4It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
Read all of Hebrews 10Hebrews 10:2 word by word
ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἂν ἐπαύσαντο προσφερόμεναι διὰ τὸ μηδεμίαν ἔχειν ἔτι συνείδησιν ἁμαρτιῶν τοὺς λατρεύοντας ἅπαξ κεκαθαρισμένους.Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- For thenἐπείepei · sinceG1893
- would theyπαύωpauō · to ceaseG3973
- notοὐou · noG3756
- ·ἄνan · ifG302
- to be offeredπροσφέρωprospherō · to bring toG4374
- becauseδιάdia · through/because ofG1223
- that the worshippersλατρεύωlatreuō · to ministerG3000
- onceἅπαξhapax · onceG530
- purgedκαθαίρωkathairō · to pruneG2508
- should have hadἔχωechō · to have/beG2192
- noμηδείςmēdeis mēdemia mēden · nothingG3367
- moreἔτιeti · stillG2089
- conscienceσυνείδησιςsuneidēsis · conscienceG4893
- of sinsἁμαρτίαhamartia · sinG266
- ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
Cross-references for Hebrews 10:2
- Hebrews 10:17Then he adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”
- Hebrews 9:13The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean.
- Psalms 103:12as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
- Isaiah 43:25“I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.
- Isaiah 44:22I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.”
- Micah 7:19You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.
Commentaries on Hebrews 10:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2Would they not have ceased to be offered? - Had they made an effectual reconciliation for the sins of the world, and contained in their once offering a plenitude of permanent merit, they would have ceased to be offered, at least in reference to any individual who had once offered them; because, in such a case, his conscience would be satisfied that its guilt had been taken away. But no Jew pretended to believe that even the annual atonement cancelled his…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2For then would they not have ceased to be offered? - Margin, “Or they would have.” The sense is the same. The idea is, that the very fact that they were repeated showed that there was some deficiency in them as to the matter of cleansing the soul from sin. If they had answered all the purposes of a sacrifice in putting away guilt, there would have been no need of repeating them in this manner. They were in this respect like medicine. If what is given to a…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2The ongoing sacrifices show they were not enough. If the old covenant sacrifices had provided lasting purity, they would have ended. Their guilt would have disappeared: See Hebrews 9:9, 14; 10:22; 13:18.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. For--if the law could, by its sacrifices, have perfected the worshippers. they--the sacrifices. once purged--IF they were once for all cleansed (He 7:27). conscience--"consciousness of sin" (He 9:9).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Hebrews 10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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