Hebrews 8:4

Webster's Bible (1833)

For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;

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  • Heb 7:11-15 : 11 Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron? 12 For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the law. 13 For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar. 14 For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood. 15 This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest,
  • Heb 5:1 : 1 For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.
  • Heb 11:4 : 4 By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God bearing witness with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.
  • Num 16:40 : 40 to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn't of the seed of Aaron, comes near to burn incense before Yahweh; that he not be as Korah, and as his company: as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.
  • Num 17:12-13 : 12 The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone. 13 Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tent of Yahweh, dies: shall we perish all of us?
  • Num 18:5 : 5 You shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar; that there be wrath no more on the children of Israel.
  • 2 Chr 26:18-19 : 18 and they withstood Uzziah the king, and said to him, It pertains not to you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for you have trespassed; neither shall it be for your honor from Yahweh God. 19 Then Uzziah was angry; and he had a censer in his hand to burn incense; and while he was angry with the priests, the leprosy broke forth in his forehead before the priests in the house of Yahweh, beside the altar of incense.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 8:1-3
    3 verses
    84%

    1Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down 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, not man.

    3For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.

  • Heb 5:1
    79%

    1For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

  • Heb 7:11-17
    7 verses
    78%

    11Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to 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 made also in the law.

    13For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar.

    14For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

    15This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest,

    16who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life:

    17for it is testified, "You are a priest forever, According to the order of Melchizedek."

  • Heb 8:5-7
    3 verses
    77%

    5who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, "See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain."

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

    7For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.

  • Heb 7:19-21
    3 verses
    76%

    19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

    20Inasmuch as he was not made priest without the taking of an oath

    21(for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him, "The Lord swore and will not change his mind, 'You are a priest forever, According to the order of Melchizedek'".

  • Heb 7:26-28
    3 verses
    76%

    26For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

    27who doesn't need, like those high priests, to daily offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For this he did once for all, when he offered up himself.

    28For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.

  • Heb 9:23-25
    3 verses
    75%

    23It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

    24For Christ hasn't entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

    25nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,

  • Heb 7:3
    75%

    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 9:11
    74%

    11But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,

  • Heb 10:11
    74%

    11Every priest indeed stands day by day ministering and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,

  • Heb 9:6-9
    4 verses
    74%

    6Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,

    7but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.

    8The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn't yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing;

    9which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshipper perfect;

  • Heb 10:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

    2Or else wouldn't they have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

  • Heb 5:3-6
    4 verses
    72%

    3Because of this, he must offer sacrifices for sins for the people, as well as for himself.

    4Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.

    5So also Christ didn't glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, "You are my Son. Today I have become your father."

    6As he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, After the order of Melchizedek."

  • Heb 7:23-24
    2 verses
    72%

    23Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered from continuing by death.

    24But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable.

  • Heb 10:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

    5Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire, But a body did you prepare for me;

  • Heb 10:8
    71%

    8Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the law),

  • Heb 4:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.

    15For we don't have a high priest who can't be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

  • Heb 2:17
    70%

    17Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

  • Heb 5:10
    70%

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

  • Heb 6:20
    70%

    20where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

  • Heb 13:10
    70%

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

  • Ps 110:4
    69%

    4Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: "You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek."

  • Heb 3:1
    69%

    1Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus;

  • Heb 9:1
    69%

    1Now indeed even the first{TR adds "tabernacle"} covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary.