Hebrews 10:2
1 For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
If it could, would not the offerings have ceased? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt the guilt of their sins.
3 Instead, those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins,
4 because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- If it could, would not the offerings have ceased? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt the guilt of their sins.
- 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.
- WEB
- Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?
- ASV
- Else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins.
- DARBY
- Since, would they not indeed have ceased being offered, on account of the worshippers once purged having no longer any conscience of sins?
- BLB
- Otherwise, would they not have ceased being offered, because of no more having conscience of sins, those serving having been cleansed once?
- ÅB
- Ellers ville de jo ha opphørt med å frembære dem, da de ofrende ikke lenger ville ha synder på samvittigheten når de en gang var renset.
- OTB
- Ellers ville de ikke ha sluttet å bli tilbudt? For de som tilber, som har blitt renset en gang for alle, ville ikke lenger ha en bevissthet om synder.
- B1930
- Ellers vilde de jo ha ophørt med å frembære dem, da de ofrende ikke lenger vilde ha synder på samvittigheten når de en gang var renset.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 43:25
I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
Read in contextMicah 7:19
He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.
Read in contextPsalms 103:12
As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.
Read in contextIsaiah 44:22
I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
Read in contextHebrews 9:13–14
For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean,
Read in contextHebrews 10:17
Then He adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”
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