Hebrews 10:2 — Compare Translations

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For if it were otherwise, would [these sacrifices] not have stopped being offered? Since the worshipers had once for all been cleansed, they would no longer have any guilt or consciousness of sin.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

For if it were otherwise, would [these sacrifices] not have stopped being offered? Since the worshipers had once for all been cleansed, they would no longer have any guilt or consciousness of sin.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

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.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

Otherwise, wouldn’t they have stopped being offered, since the worshipers, purified once and for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

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

English EASY 2024

If the old rules could do that, the priests would have stopped offering sacrifices. The people who came to worship God would have become completely clean once, for all time. They would no longer have trouble in their minds about their sins.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

If the law could make people perfect, those sacrifices would have already stopped. They would already be clean from their sins, and they would not still feel guilty.

Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sin?

English GNT (Good News Translation)

If the people worshiping God had really been purified from their sins, they would not feel guilty of sin any more, and all sacrifices would stop.

English God's Word - GW 1995

If these sacrifices could have made the worshipers perfect, the sacrifices would have stopped long ago. Those who worship would have been cleansed once and for all. Their consciences would have been free from sin.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

Otherwise, wouldn't they have stopped being offered, since the worshipers, once purified, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have consciousness of sins?

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshippers, once purified, would no longer be conscious of sins?

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins?

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

Otherwise, would not the sacrifices have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, once cleansed, would no longer have had any consciousness of sins?

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

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?

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

If it could, wouldn't the sacrifices have stopped being offered? The worshipers would have been made clean once and for all time. They would not have felt guilty for their sins anymore.

English NIV

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.

English NKJ 1982

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins.

English NLT

If they could have provided perfect cleansing, the sacrifices would have stopped, for the worshipers would have been purified once for all time, and their feelings of guilt would have disappeared.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

Otherwise, would they not have ceased being offered, since the worshipers, cleansed once for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sin?

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

For if animal sacrifices could once and for all eliminate sin, they would have ceased to be offered and the worshipers would have clean consciences. Instead, once was not enough so by the repetitive sacrifices year after year, the worshipers were continually reminded of their sins, with their hearts still impure.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered? If the worshipers had once been cleansed, they would no longer have any consciousness of sin.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

If they could have, one offering would have been enough; the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all and their feeling of guilt would be gone.

English Tyndale 1537

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.