Hebrews 8:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; therefore it is necessary that this man also have something to offer.

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  • Heb 5:1 : 1 For every high priest taken from among men is appointed for men in matters related to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 And walk in love, as Christ also loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
  • Heb 9:14 : 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
  • Heb 10:9-9 : 9 Then he said, Behold, I have come to do your will, O God. He takes away the first that he may establish the second. 10 By that will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And every priest stands daily ministering and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God;
  • John 6:51 : 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if anyone eats of this bread, he shall live forever: 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 for Himself a special people, zealous for good works.
  • Heb 7:27 : 27 Who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for he did this 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 appointed for men in matters related 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 would not be a priest, since there are priests that offer gifts according to the law;

    5Who serve as an example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, says He, that you make all things according to the pattern shown to you on the mount.

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

  • Heb 8:1-2
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    82%

    1Now of the things we have spoken this is the sum: We have such a high priest, who is seated at 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 set up, and not man.

  • Heb 5:3-4
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    3Because of this, he ought to offer sacrifices for sins, as for the people, so also for himself.

    4And no man takes this honor unto himself, but only he who is called by God, as was Aaron.

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

    24But he, because he continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood.

    25Therefore he is able also to save completely those who come to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

    26For such a high priest was fitting for us, who is holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens;

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

    28For the law appoints as high priests men who have weaknesses; but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son, who is perfected forever.

  • Heb 9:25
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    25Not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the holy place every year with the blood of others;

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

  • Heb 2:17
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    17Therefore, in all things He had to be made like 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 arranged, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, performing the service of God.

    7But into the second the high priest went 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 through the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

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

    13For he of whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, of which no man attended the altar.

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

  • Heb 9:9
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    9Which was a symbol for the present time, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot make the worshiper perfect in conscience;

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

    21For those priests were made without an oath; but this one with an oath by him that said to him, The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek:

  • Heb 9:23
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    23Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the 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 genealogy, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like the Son of God; remains a priest continually.

  • Heb 5:6
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    6As He also says in another place, 'You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.'

  • Heb 3:1
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    1Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, 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 to the priest, shall be his.

  • Heb 7:15
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    15And it is yet far more evident: for in the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest,

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

  • Heb 7:17
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    17For he testifies, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

  • Lev 7:6-8
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    71%

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

    7As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest who makes atonement with it shall have it.

    8And the priest who offers any man's burnt offering, even the priest, shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered.

  • Heb 6:20
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    20Where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, made a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

  • Heb 5:10
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    10Called by God as a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.

  • Heb 10:5
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    5Therefore, when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you have prepared for me:

  • 1 Pet 2:5
    70%

    5You also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

  • Heb 13:10-11
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    70%

    10We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.

    11For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp.

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

    15For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.

  • Lev 7:14
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    14And from it he shall offer one out of the whole offering as a wave offering to the LORD, and it shall be the priest's who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings.

  • Lev 17:8
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    8And you shall say to them, Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell among you, that offers 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
    70%

    3But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.

  • Lev 3:12
    69%

    12If his offering is a goat, then he shall present it before the LORD.