Hebrews 10:2

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?

World English Bible
Learn

Your notes

Private to you. Anything you write on this verse, here or while reading, shows up here and in My study.

Other translations

WEBBE

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

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.

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.

BBE

For if this had been possible, would there not have been an end of those offerings, because the worshippers would have been made completely clean and would have been no longer conscious of sins?

Original Greek

Look up a word

Tap a word to see what it means and everywhere else it's used.

ἐπεὶ epei Otherwise G1893 οὐκ ouk not G3756 ἂν an would G302 ἐπαύσαντο epausanto they have ceased G3973 προσφερόμεναι prospheromenai being offered G4374 διὰ dia because of G1223 τὸ to (the) G3588 μηδεμίαν mēdemian none G3367 ἔχειν echein having G2192 ἔτι eti any longer G2089 συνείδησιν suneidēsin conscience G4893 ἁμαρτιῶν hamartiōn of sins G266 τοὺς tous those G3588 λατρεύοντας latreuontas serving G3000 ἅπαξ hapax once G530 κεκαθαρισμένους kekatharismenous cleansed G2511

The early church

"For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshipers once purged, should have had no more conscience of sins? But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year." What then? do not we offer every day? We offer indeed, but making a remembrance of His death, and this remembrance is one and not many. How is it one, and not many? Inasmuch as that Sacrifice was once for all offered, and carried into the Holy of Holies. This is a figure of that sacrifice and this remembrance of that. For we always offer the same, not one sheep now and to-morrow another, but always the same thing: so that the sacrifice is one. And yet by this reasoning, since the offering is made in many places, are there many Christs? but Christ is one everywhere, being complete here and complete there also, one Body. As then while offered in many places, He is one body and not many bodies; so also He is one sacrifice. He is our High Priest, who offered the sacrifice that cleanses us. That we offer now also, which was then offered, which cannot be exhausted. This is done in remembrance of what was then done. For (saith He) "do this in remembrance of Me." (Luke xxii. 19.) It is not another sacrifice, as the High Priest, but we offer always the same, or rather we perform a remembrance of a Sacrifice.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Homilies on Hebrews

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 1–10

The apostle having shown that the tabernacle, and ordinances of the covenant of Sinai, were only emblems and types of the gospel, concludes that the sacrifices the high priests offered continually, could not make the worshippers perfect, with respect to pardon, and the purifying of their consciences. But when "God manifested in the flesh," became the sacrifice, and his death upon the accursed tree the ransom, then the Sufferer being of infinite worth, his free-will sufferings were of infinite value. The atoning sacrifice must be one capable of consenting, and must of his own will place himself in the sinner's stead: Christ did so. The fountain of all that Christ has done for his people, is the sovereign will and grace of God. The righteousness brought in, and the sacrifice once offered by Christ, are of eternal power, and his salvation shall never be done away. They are of power to make all the comers thereunto perfect; they derive from the atoning blood, strength and motives for obedience, and inward comfort.

Read Matthew Henry on Hebrews 10 →

Cross-references

6

Topics

SinPurity

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.