Hebrews 8:3

King James Version 1611 (Original)

For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.

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  • Heb 5:1 : 1 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
  • Heb 9:14 : 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 10:9-9 : 9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
  • John 6:51 : 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
  • Heb 7:27 : 27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

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  • Heb 5:1
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    1For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

  • Heb 8:4-6
    3 verses
    84%

    4For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:

    5Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.

    6But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

  • Heb 8:1-2
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    82%

    1Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

    2A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

  • Heb 5:3-4
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    3And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

    4And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.

  • Heb 7:23-28
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    23And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:

    24But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.

    25Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

    26For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

    27Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

    28For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.

  • Heb 9:25
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    25Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;

  • Heb 10:11
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    11And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

  • Heb 2:17
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    17Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

  • Heb 9:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.

    7But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:

  • Heb 7:11-13
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    11If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

    12For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

    13For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.

  • Heb 9:11
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    11But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

  • Heb 9:9
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    9Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;

  • Heb 7:20-21
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    20And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:

    21For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)

  • Heb 9:23
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    23It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

  • Heb 7:3
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    3Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.

  • Heb 5:6
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    6As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

  • Heb 3:1
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    1Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

  • Num 5:9
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    9And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.

  • Heb 7:15
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    15And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,

  • Heb 10:21
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    21And having an high priest over the house of God;

  • Heb 7:17
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    17For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

  • Lev 7:6-8
    3 verses
    71%

    6Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.

    7As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it.

    8And the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered.

  • Heb 6:20
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    20Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

  • Heb 5:10
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    10Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.

  • Heb 10:5
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    5Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

  • 1 Pet 2:5
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    5Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

  • Heb 13:10-11
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    10We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.

    11For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.

  • Heb 4:14-15
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    14Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

    15For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

  • Lev 7:14
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    14And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation for an heave offering unto the LORD, and it shall be the priest's that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings.

  • Lev 17:8
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    8And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you, that offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice,

  • Lev 16:32
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    32And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his father's stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, even the holy garments:

  • Heb 10:3
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    3But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.

  • Lev 3:12
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    12And if his offering be a goat, then he shall offer it before the LORD.