Hebrews 8:3

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For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. So this one too had to have something to offer.

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  • Heb 5:1 : 1 For every high priest is taken from among the people and appointed to represent them before God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
  • Heb 9:14 : 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.
  • Heb 10:9-9 : 9 then he says,“Here I am: I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first to establish the second. 10 By his will we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And every priest stands day after day serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again– sacrifices that can never take away sins. 12 But when this priest had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right hand of God,
  • John 6:51 : 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.
  • Heb 7:27 : 27 He has no need to do every day what those priests do, to offer sacrifices first for their own sins and then for the sins of the people, since he did this in offering himself once for all.

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  • Heb 5:1
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    1For every high priest is taken from among the people and appointed to represent them before God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

  • Heb 8:4-6
    3 verses
    84%

    4Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer the gifts prescribed by the law.

    5The place where they serve is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says,“See that you make everything according to the design shown to you on the mountain.”

    6But now Jesus has obtained a superior ministry, since the covenant that he mediates is also better and is enacted on better promises.

  • Heb 8:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

    1The High Priest of a Better Covenant Now the main point of what we are saying is this: We have such a high priest, one who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,

    2a minister in the sanctuary and the true tabernacle that the Lord, not man, set up.

  • Heb 5:3-4
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    3and for this reason he is obligated to make sin offerings for himself as well as for the people.

    4And no one assumes this honor on his own initiative, but only when called to it by God, as in fact Aaron was.

  • Heb 7:23-28
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    23And the others who became priests were numerous, because death prevented them from continuing in office,

    24but he holds his priesthood permanently since he lives forever.

    25So he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.

    26For it is indeed fitting for us to have such a high priest: holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

    27He has no need to do every day what those priests do, to offer sacrifices first for their own sins and then for the sins of the people, since he did this in offering himself once for all.

    28For the law appoints as high priests men subject to weakness, but the word of solemn affirmation that came after the law appoints a son made perfect forever.

  • Heb 9:25
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    25And he did not enter to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the sanctuary year after year with blood that is not his own,

  • Heb 10:11
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    11And every priest stands day after day serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again– sacrifices that can never take away sins.

  • Heb 2:17
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    17Therefore he had to be made like his brothers and sisters in every respect, so that he could become a merciful and faithful high priest in things relating to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

  • Heb 9:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6So with these things prepared like this, the priests enter continually into the outer tent as they perform their duties.

    7But only the high priest enters once a year into the inner tent, and not without blood that he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.

  • Heb 7:11-13
    3 verses
    74%

    11Jesus and the Priesthood of Melchizedek So if perfection had in fact been possible through the Levitical priesthood– for on that basis the people received the law– what further need would there have been for another priest to arise, said to be in the order of Melchizedek and not in Aaron’s order?

    12For when the priesthood changes, a change in the law must come as well.

    13Yet the one these things are spoken about belongs to a different tribe, and no one from that tribe has ever officiated at the altar.

  • Heb 9:11
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    11Christ’s Service in the Heavenly Sanctuary But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

  • Heb 9:9
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    9This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper.

  • Heb 7:20-21
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    20And since this was not done without a sworn affirmation– for the others have become priests without a sworn affirmation,

    21but Jesus did so with a sworn affirmation by the one who said to him,“The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind,‘You are a priest forever’”–

  • Heb 9:23
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    23So it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required better sacrifices than these.

  • Heb 7:3
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    3Without father, without mother, without genealogy, he has neither beginning of days nor end of life but is like the son of God, and he remains a priest for all time.

  • Heb 5:6
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    6as also in another place God says,“You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

  • Heb 3:1
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    1Jesus and Moses Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, partners in a heavenly calling, take note of Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess,

  • Num 5:9
    72%

    9Every offering of all the Israelites’ holy things that they bring to the priest will be his.

  • Heb 7:15
    72%

    15And this is even clearer if another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,

  • Heb 10:21
    71%

    21and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

  • Heb 7:17
    71%

    17For here is the testimony about him:“You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

  • Lev 7:6-8
    3 verses
    71%

    6Any male among the priests may eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.

    7The law is the same for the sin offering and the guilt offering; it belongs to the priest who makes atonement with it.

    8Priestly Portions of Burnt and Grain Offerings“‘As for the priest who presents someone’s burnt offering, the hide of that burnt offering which he presented belongs to him.

  • Heb 6:20
    71%

    20where Jesus our forerunner entered on our behalf, since he became a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

  • Heb 5:10
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    10and he was designated by God as high priest in the order of Melchizedek.

  • Heb 10:5
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    5So when he came into the world, he said,“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.

  • 1 Pet 2:5
    70%

    5you yourselves, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood and to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

  • Heb 13:10-11
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    70%

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

    11For the bodies of those animals whose blood the high priest brings into the sanctuary as an offering for sin are burned outside the camp.

  • Heb 4:14-15
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    70%

    14Jesus Our Compassionate High Priest Therefore since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession.

    15For we do not have a high priest incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way just as we are, yet without sin.

  • Lev 7:14
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    14He must present one of each kind of grain offering as a contribution offering to the LORD; it belongs to the priest who splashes the blood of the peace offering.

  • Lev 17:8
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    8“You are to say to them:‘Any man from the house of Israel or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst, who offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice

  • Lev 16:32
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    32“The priest who is anointed and ordained to act as high priest in place of his father is to make atonement. He is to put on the linen garments, the holy garments,

  • Heb 10:3
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    3But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year.

  • Lev 3:12
    69%

    12“‘If his offering is a goat he must present it before the LORD,