Hebrews 10:2
Good News Translation
If the people worshiping God had really been purified from their sins, they would not feel guilty of sin any more, and all sacrifices would stop.

New Revised Standard Version
Otherwise, would they not have ceased being offered, since the worshipers, cleansed once for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sin?

Contemporary English Version
If there were worshipers who already have their sins washed away and their consciences made clear, there would not be any need to go on offering sacrifices.

New American Bible
Otherwise, would not the sacrifices have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, once cleansed, would no longer have had any consciousness of sins?

Douay-Rheims Bible
For then they would have ceased to be offered: because the worshippers once cleansed should have no conscience of sin any longer.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For then they would have ceased to be offered: because the worshippers once cleansed should have no conscience of sin any longer.

would they not have.

Hebrews 10:17 And their sins and iniquities I will remember no more.

Hebrews 9:13,14 For if the blood of goats and of oxen, and the ashes of an heifer, being sprinkled, sanctify such as are defiled, to the cleansing of the flesh: . . .

Psalm 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our iniquities from us.

Isaiah 43:25 I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

Isaiah 44:22 I have blotted out thy iniquities as a cloud, and thy sins as a mist: return to me, for I have redeemed thee.

Micah 7:19 He will turn again, and have mercy on us: he will put away our iniquities: and he will cast all our sins into the bottom of the sea.

conscience.

Context
Christ's Perfect Sacrifice
1For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things, by the selfsame sacrifices which they offer continually every year, can never make the comers thereunto perfect. 2For then they would have ceased to be offered: because the worshippers once cleansed should have no conscience of sin any longer. 3But in them there is made a commemoration of sins every year:…
Cross References
Zechariah 9:11
Thou also by the blood of thy testament hast sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit, wherein is no water.

Hebrews 9:14
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God?

1 Peter 2:19
For this is thankworthy: if, for conscience towards God, a man endure sorrows, suffering wrongfully.

Hebrews 10:1
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