Hebrews 7:22

Authorized King James Version (1611)

By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

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  • Gen 43:9 : 9 I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:
  • Gen 44:32 : 32 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.
  • Prov 6:1 : 1 ¶ My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, [if] thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
  • Prov 20:16 : 16 ¶ Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
  • Dan 9:27 : 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
  • Matt 26:28 : 28 ‹For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.›
  • Mark 14:24 : 24 And he said unto them, ‹This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.›
  • Luke 22:20 : 20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, ‹This cup› [is] ‹the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.›
  • 1 Cor 11:25 : 25 After the same manner also [he took] the cup, when he had supped, saying, ‹This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink› [it], ‹in remembrance of me.›
  • Heb 8:6-9 : 6 ¶ But 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. 7 For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. 8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. 10 For this [is] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
  • Heb 9:15-23 : 15 ¶ And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions [that were] under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. 16 For where a testament [is], there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 17 For a testament [is] of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. 18 Whereupon neither the first [testament] was dedicated without blood. 19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, 20 Saying, This [is] the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. 21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. 22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. 23 ¶ [It 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 12:24 : 24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than [that of] Abel.
  • Heb 13:20 : 20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,

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

    16Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.

    17For he testifieth, Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

    18For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.

    19For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope [did]; by the which we draw nigh unto God.

    20And inasmuch as not without an oath [he was made priest]:

    21(For 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 8:5-7
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    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.

    6¶ But 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.

    7For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

  • Heb 7:28
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    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.

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    20Whither the forerunner is for us entered, [even] Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

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    15¶ And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions [that were] under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

    16For where a testament [is], there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.

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    16For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation [is] to them an end of all strife.

    17Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath:

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    11¶ If 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.

  • Heb 7:23-26
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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;

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    7And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.

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    4¶ Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

  • 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;

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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.

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    1¶ Now 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;

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    24And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than [that of] Abel.

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    9And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

    10¶ Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.

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    6As he saith also in another [place], Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

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    20Saying, This [is] the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.

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    14For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

    15[Whereof] the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,

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    18Whereupon neither the first [testament] was dedicated without blood.

  • Heb 13:20
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    20Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,

  • 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.

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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.

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    13For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,

  • Heb 3:1-2
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    1¶ Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

    2Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses [was faithful] in all his house.

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    17And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, [and] to Israel [for] an everlasting covenant,

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    10By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once [for all].

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    21And [having] an high priest over the house of God;

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    4The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

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    19¶ Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,

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    9Which [covenant] he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;

  • Heb 8:13
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    13In that he saith, A new [covenant], he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old [is] ready to vanish away.