Bible verse
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.
Hebrews 10:2 · BSB
The verses around it, from Hebrews 10.
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.
2 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.
5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me.
6 In burnt offerings and sin offerings You took no delight.
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.
ERV
Else would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more conscience of sins?
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