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Hebrews 10:2

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

KJV

ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἂν ἐπαύσαντο προσφερόμεναι, διὰ τὸ μηδεμίαν ἔχειν ἔτι συνείδησιν ἁμαρτιῶν τοὺς λατρεύοντας ἅπαξ κεκαθαρισμένους;

Greek NT

alioquin cessassent offerri : ideo quod nullam haberent ultra conscientiam peccati, cultores semel mundati :

Vulgate

Else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins.

ASV

For then they would have ceased to be offered: because the worshippers once cleansed should have no conscience of sin any longer.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

διά
dia
preposition · 633×
καθαρίζω
katharizo
verb · 31×
λατρεύω
latreuo
verb · 21×
μηδείς
medeis
adjective · 92×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
παύω
pauo
verb · 15×
προσφέρω
prosphero
verb · 49×
συνείδησις
suneidesis
noun · 31×
ἁμαρτία
amartia
noun · 173×
ἄν
an
particle · 165×
ἅπαξ
apax
adverb · 14×
ἐπεί
epei
conjunction · 26×
ἔτι
eti
adverb · 94×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: κεκαθαρισμένους | WH/Treg/NIV: κεκαθαρισμένους | RP: κεκαθαρμένους
  • κεκαθαρισμένουςSBLGNT
  • κεκαθαρισμένουςWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • κεκαθαρμένουςRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

1. The Jews greatly prided themselves on the temple and the tabernacle. Wherefore they said, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord. Jeremiah 7:4 For nowhere else in the earth was such a temple constructed as this, either for costliness, or beauty, or anything else. For God who ordained it, commanded that it should be made with great magnificence…

Cross-references

  • Heb 9:13 — For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
  • Heb 9:14 — How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
  • Heb 10:17 — And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
  • Heb 10:18 — Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
  • Isa 43:25 — I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
  • Isa 44:22 — I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
  • Mic 7:19 — He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
  • Ps 103:12 — As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
  • Ps 103:12 — As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.