Parallel Verses
Thomas Haweis New Testament
else they would have discontinued to make the offering, because they who performed the service being once made clean, would have had no more sense of sins on their conscience.
New American Standard Bible
Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had
King James Version
For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
Holman Bible
Otherwise, wouldn’t they have stopped being offered, since the worshipers, once purified, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?
International Standard Version
Otherwise, would they not have stopped offering them, because the worshipers, cleansed once for all, would no longer be aware of any sins?
A Conservative Version
Otherwise would they not have ceased being offered, because of those who worship, once having been cleansed, to have no further conscience of sins?
American Standard Version
Else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins.
Amplified
For if it were otherwise, would not these sacrifices have stopped being offered? For the worshipers, having once [for all time] been cleansed, would no longer have a consciousness of sin.
An Understandable Version
If it could, would not those sacrifices have stopped being offered [by now], since the worshipers would have been [ceremonially] cleansed and would not have had a sense of guilt anymore?
Anderson New Testament
for then, would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshipers, after being once cleansed, would no longer have a consciousness of sins.
Bible in Basic English
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?
Common New Testament
Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered? If the worshipers had once been cleansed, they would no longer have any consciousness of sins.
Daniel Mace New Testament
for then they would not have been repeated, because they who sacrificed being once purified, would not have been conscious of wanting any further atonement for their sins:
Darby Translation
Since, would they not indeed have ceased being offered, on account of the worshippers once purged having no longer any conscience of sins?
Godbey New Testament
since in that case would they not have ceased being offered, because the worshipers having once been purified would have had no more conscience of sins?
Goodspeed New Testament
Otherwise, would they not have ceased to offer these sacrifices, because those who offered them, having once been purified, would have had no further consciousness of sin?
John Wesley New Testament
Otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshipers, having been once purged, would have had no more consciousness of sins.
Julia Smith Translation
For would they not have ceased to be brought in? because they serving have no more consciousness of sins, once purified.
King James 2000
For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshipers once purged should have had no more consciousness of sins.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the ones who worship, having been purified once and for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?
Modern King James verseion
For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshipers, when they had been once for all purged, would have had no more conscience of sin.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For would not then those sacrifices have ceased to have been offered? Because that the offerers, once purged, should have had no more consciences of sins.
Moffatt New Testament
Otherwise, they would surely have ceased to be offered; for the worshippers, once cleansed, would no longer be conscious of sins!
Montgomery New Testament
Otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshippers having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sin.
NET Bible
For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once for all and so have no further consciousness of sin?
New Heart English Bible
Or else would not they have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?
Noyes New Testament
For in that case would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins?
Sawyer New Testament
if they could, would they not have ceased to be offered, because those serving would have had no longer a knowledge of sins, having been once purified?
The Emphasized Bible
Else would they not, in that case, have ceased being offered, by reason of those rendering the divine service having no further conscience at all of sins, being once for all purified?
Twentieth Century New Testament
Otherwise, would not the offering of these sacrifices have been abandoned, as the worshipers, having been once purified, would have had their consciences clear from sins?
Webster
For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshipers once cleansed, would have had no more conscience of sins.
Weymouth New Testament
For then would not the sacrifices have ceased to be offered, because the consciences of the worshippers--who in that case would now have been cleansed once for all--would no longer be burdened with sins?
Williams New Testament
Otherwise, would they not have ceased offering them, because those who offered them, having once been purified, would have had no further consciousness of sins?
World English Bible
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?
Worrell New Testament
else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshipers, having been cleansed once for all, would have had no more conscience of sins.
Worsley New Testament
For then they would have ceased to be offered, because the sacrificers, being once purified, would no longer retain any consciousness of sins.
Youngs Literal Translation
since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified?
Themes
Conscience » The blood of Christ alone can purify
Desires » What the lord does not desire
Offerings » Animal sacrifices » A type of Christ
Pleasure » What the lord has no pleasure in
Reconciliation » Jesus Christ reconciling man to God
Sacrifice » The lord not desiring sacrifices
Sacrifices » Could not take away sin
Sacrifices » Were offered » Under the mosaic dispensation
Sanctification » Everyone being sanctified through the blood of jesus Christ
Types » Of the saviour » The sacrifices
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Hebrews 10:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Christ's Death Takes Away Sins
1 NOW the law, having a shadow of the good things which were to come, not the very substance of the things, cannot possibly, by the same sacrifices which they offer year by year continually, make those perfect who approach [God]; 2 else they would have discontinued to make the offering, because they who performed the service being once made clean, would have had no more sense of sins on their conscience. 3 But in these [sacrifices] there is a commemoration of sins every year.
Phrases
Cross References
Hebrews 9:13-14
For if the blood of bulls, and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the defiled sanctifieth to corporal purification,
Hebrews 10:17
[he adds,] "and their sins and their iniquities I will in no wise remember any more."