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Hebrews 10:2
2If 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.
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.
- New International Version (NIV)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.
- 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.
Context of Hebrews 10:2
1The old system under the law of Moses was only a shadow, a dim preview of the good things to come, not the good things themselves. The sacrifices under that system were repeated again and again, year after year, but they were never able to provide perfect cleansing for those who came to worship. 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. 3But instead, those sacrifices actually reminded them of their sins year after year. 4For it is not possible 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 says, “I will never again remember their sins and lawless deeds.”
- Hebrews 9:13Under the old system, the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer could cleanse people’s bodies from ceremonial impurity.
- Psalms 103:12He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west.
- Isaiah 43:25“I—yes, I alone—will blot out your sins for my own sake and will never think of them again.
- Isaiah 44:22I have swept away your sins like a cloud. I have scattered your offenses like the morning mist. Oh, return to me, for I have paid the price to set you free.”
- Micah 7:19Once again you will have compassion on us. You will trample our sins under your feet and throw them into the depths of the ocean!
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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