⚓WEB · Hebrews 10:2

What does Hebrews 10:2 mean?

"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?"

— Hebrews 10:2 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

1

For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

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?

3

But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins.

4

For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

5

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire, but you prepared a body for me.

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