2If it could, 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.


In Context

1 The 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.

2 If it could, 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.

3 But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins,

4 because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Hebrews 10:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:2For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

10:2For then they would have ceased to be offered: because the worshippers once cleansed should have no conscience of sin any longer:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

10:2Else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:2Since, would they not indeed have ceased being offered, on account of the worshippers once purged having no longer any conscience of sins?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

10:2Else would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more conscience of sins?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:2For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshipers once cleansed, would have had no more conscience of sins.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:2Or else wouldn't they have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

10:2since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:2For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.