Hebrews 2:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Because of this it was necessary for him to be made like his brothers in every way, so that he might be a high priest full of mercy and keeping faith in everything to do with God, making offerings for the sins of the people.

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  • Heb 4:14-5:2 : 14 Having then a great high priest, who has made his way through the heavens, even Jesus the Son of God, let us be strong in our faith. 15 For we have not a high priest who is not able to be touched by the feelings of our feeble flesh; but we have one who has been tested in all points as we ourselves are tested, but without sin. 16 Then let us come near to the seat of grace without fear, so that mercy may be given to us, and we may get grace for our help in time of need. 1 Every high priest who is taken from among men is given his position to take care of the interests of men in those things which have to do with God, so that he may make offerings for sins. 2 He is able to have feeling for those who have no knowledge and for those who are wandering from the true way, because he himself is feeble;
  • Heb 7:26 : 26 It was right for us to have such a high priest, one who is holy and without evil, doing no wrong, having no part with sinners, and made higher than the heavens:
  • Phil 2:7-8 : 7 But he made himself as nothing, taking the form of a servant, being made like men; 8 And being seen in form as a man, he took the lowest place, and let himself be put to death, even the death of the cross.
  • Heb 2:14 : 14 And because the children are flesh and blood, he took a body himself and became like them; so that by his death he might put an end to him who had the power of death, that is to say, the Evil One;
  • Dan 9:24 : 24 Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place.
  • Rom 5:10 : 10 For if, when we were haters of God, the death of his Son made us at peace with him, much more, now that we are his friends, will we have salvation through his life;
  • Rom 15:17 : 17 So I have pride in Christ Jesus in the things which are God's.
  • 2 Cor 5:18-21 : 18 But all things are of God, who has made us at peace with himself through Christ, and has given to us the work of making peace; 19 That is, that God was in Christ making peace between the world and himself, not putting their sins to their account, and having given to us the preaching of this news of peace. 20 So we are the representatives of Christ, as if God was making a request to you through us: we make our request to you, in the name of Christ, be at peace with God. 21 For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
  • Eph 2:16 : 16 And that the two might come into agreement with God in one body through the cross, so putting an end to that division.
  • Lev 8:15 : 15 And he put it to death; and Moses took the blood and put it on the horns of the altar and round it with his finger, and made the altar clean, draining out the blood at the base of the altar; so he made it holy, taking away what was unclean.
  • 2 Chr 29:24 : 24 And the priests put them to death, and made a sin-offering with their blood on the altar, to take away the sin of all Israel: for the king gave orders that the burned offering and the sin-offering were for all Israel.
  • Isa 11:5 : 5 And righteousness will be the cord of his robe, and good faith the band round his breast.
  • Ezek 45:15 : 15 And one lamb from the flock out of every two hundred, from all the families of Israel, for a meal offering and for a burned offering and for peace-offerings, to take away their sin, says the Lord.
  • Ezek 45:17 : 17 And the ruler will be responsible for the burned offering and the meal offering and the drink offering, at the feasts and the new moons and the Sabbaths, at all the fixed feasts of the children of Israel: he will give the sin-offering and meal offering and burned offering and the peace-offerings, to take away the sin of the children of Israel.
  • Ezek 45:20 : 20 And this you are to do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who is in error and for the feeble-minded: you are to make the house free from sin.
  • Heb 3:2 : 2 Who kept faith with God who gave him his place, even as Moses did in all his house.
  • Heb 3:5 : 5 And Moses certainly kept faith as a servant, in all his house, and as a witness of those things which were to be said later;
  • Col 1:21 : 21 And you, who in the past were cut off and at war with God in your minds through evil works, he has now made one
  • Heb 2:11 : 11 For he who makes holy and those who are made holy are all of one family; and for this reason it is no shame for him to give them the name of brothers,
  • Heb 7:28 : 28 The law makes high priests of men who are feeble; but the word of the oath, which was made after the law, gives that position to a Son, in whom all good is for ever complete.

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  • Heb 2:18
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    18 For having been put to the test himself, he is able to give help to others when they are tested.

  • Heb 5:1-3
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    1 Every high priest who is taken from among men is given his position to take care of the interests of men in those things which have to do with God, so that he may make offerings for sins.

    2 He is able to have feeling for those who have no knowledge and for those who are wandering from the true way, because he himself is feeble;

    3 And being feeble, he has to make sin-offerings for himself as well as for the people.

  • Heb 4:14-16
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    14 Having then a great high priest, who has made his way through the heavens, even Jesus the Son of God, let us be strong in our faith.

    15 For we have not a high priest who is not able to be touched by the feelings of our feeble flesh; but we have one who has been tested in all points as we ourselves are tested, but without sin.

    16 Then let us come near to the seat of grace without fear, so that mercy may be given to us, and we may get grace for our help in time of need.

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    9 But we see him who was made a little lower than the angels, even Jesus, crowned with glory and honour, because he let himself be put to death so that by the grace of God he might undergo death for all men.

    10 Because it was right for him, for whom and through whom all things have being, in guiding his sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation complete through pain.

    11 For he who makes holy and those who are made holy are all of one family; and for this reason it is no shame for him to give them the name of brothers,

    12 Saying, I will give the knowledge of your name to my brothers, I will make a song of praise to you before the church.

  • Heb 8:1-6
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    1 Now of the things we are saying this is the chief point: We have such a high priest, who has taken his place at the right hand of God's high seat of glory in heaven,

    2 As a servant of the holy things and of the true Tent, which was put up by God, not by man.

    3 Now every high priest is given authority to take to God the things which are given and to make offerings; so that it is necessary for this man, like them, to have something for an offering.

    4 If he had been on earth he would not have been a priest at all, because there are other priests who make the offerings ordered by the law;

    5 Being servants of that which is a copy and an image of the things in heaven, as Moses, when he was about to make the Tent, had special orders from God: for, See, he said, that you make everything like the design which you saw in the mountain.

    6 But now his position as priest is higher. because through him God has made a better agreement with man, based on the giving of better things.

  • Heb 2:16
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    16 For, truly, he does not take on the life of angels, but that of the seed of Abraham.

  • Heb 7:25-28
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    25 So that he is fully able to be the saviour of all who come to God through him, because he is ever living to make prayer to God for them.

    26 It was right for us to have such a high priest, one who is holy and without evil, doing no wrong, having no part with sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

    27 Who has no need to make offerings for sins every day, like those high priests, first for himself, and then for the people; because he did this once and for ever when he made an offering of himself.

    28 The law makes high priests of men who are feeble; but the word of the oath, which was made after the law, gives that position to a Son, in whom all good is for ever complete.

  • Heb 3:1-2
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    1 For this reason, holy brothers, marked out to have a part in heaven, give thought to Jesus the representative and high priest of our faith;

    2 Who kept faith with God who gave him his place, even as Moses did in all his house.

  • Heb 5:7-10
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    7 Who in the days of his flesh, having sent up prayers and requests with strong crying and weeping to him who was able to give him salvation from death, had his prayer answered because of his fear of God.

    8 And though he was a Son, through the pain which he underwent, the knowledge came to him of what it was to be under God's orders;

    9 And when he had been made complete, he became the giver of eternal salvation to all those who are under his orders;

    10 Being named by God a high priest of the order of Melchizedek.

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    20 And as this is not without the taking of an oath

  • Heb 9:23-26
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    23 For this cause it was necessary to make the copies of the things in heaven clean with these offerings; but the things themselves are made clean with better offerings than these.

    24 For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us.

    25 And he did not have to make an offering of himself again and again, as the high priest goes into the holy place every year with blood which is not his;

    26 For then he would have undergone a number of deaths from the time of the making of the world: but now he has come to us at the end of the old order, to put away sin by the offering of himself.

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    6 Now while these things were in existence, the priests went into the first Tent at all times, for prayer and the making of offerings.

    7 But only the high priest went into the second, once a year, not without making an offering of blood for himself and for the errors of the people:

  • Heb 6:20
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    20 Where Jesus has gone before us, as a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

  • Heb 2:14
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    14 And because the children are flesh and blood, he took a body himself and became like them; so that by his death he might put an end to him who had the power of death, that is to say, the Evil One;

  • Heb 7:22
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    22 By so much is it a better agreement which we have through Jesus.

  • Heb 9:15
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    15 And for this cause it is through him that a new agreement has come into being, so that after the errors under the first agreement had been taken away by his death, the word of God might have effect for those who were marked out for an eternal heritage.

  • Heb 9:11
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    11 But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world,

  • Heb 10:19
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    19 So then, my brothers, being able to go into the holy place without fear, because of the blood of Jesus,

  • Heb 1:3-4
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    3 Who, being the outshining of his glory, the true image of his substance, supporting all things by the word of his power, having given himself as an offering making clean from sins, took his seat at the right hand of God in heaven;

    4 Having become by so much better than the angels, as the name which is his heritage is more noble than theirs.

  • Lev 16:33
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    33 And he will make the holy place and the Tent of meeting and the altar free from sin; he will take away sin from the priests and from all the people.

  • Heb 7:3
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    3 Being without father or mother, or family, having no birth or end to his life, being made like the Son of God, is a priest for ever.

  • Heb 10:21
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    21 And having a great priest over the house of God,

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    15 And this is even more clear if a second priest has come up who is like Melchizedek,

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    12 Because if the priests are changed, it is necessary to make a change in the law.

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    28 So Christ, having at his first coming taken on himself the sins of men, will be seen a second time, without sin, by those who are waiting for him, for their salvation.

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    17 For it has been witnessed of him, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.