17 occurrences

'High Priest' in the Bible

For every high priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf of men in things pertaining to God, in order to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins;

So also Christ did not glorify Himself so as to become a high priest, but He who said to Him,“You are My Son,Today I have begotten You”;

being designated by God as a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.

who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people, because this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.

For the Law appoints men as high priests who are weak, but the word of the oath, which came after the Law, appoints a Son, made perfect forever.

Now the main point in what has been said is this: we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

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

But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation;

nor was it that He would offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the holy place year by year with blood that is not his own.

For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside the camp.

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