Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

being able to exercise forbearance towards the ignorant and erring, since he himself also is clothed with infirmity;

New American Standard Bible

he can deal gently with the ignorant and misguided, since he himself also is beset with weakness;

King James Version

Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

Holman Bible

He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and are going astray, since he is also subject to weakness.

International Standard Version

He can deal gently with people who are ignorant and easily deceived, since he himself is subject to weakness.

A Conservative Version

Who can be gentle to those who are ignorant and led astray, since he himself is also encompassed with weakness.

American Standard Version

who can bear gently with the ignorant and erring, for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity;

Amplified

He is able to deal gently with the spiritually ignorant and misguided, since he is also subject to human weakness;

An Understandable Version

He is able to gently put up with ignorant and wayward people because he himself is subject to [the same spiritual] weaknesses.

Anderson New Testament

being able to have compassion on the ignorant and erring, because he himself is beset with infirmity:

Bible in Basic English

He is able to have feeling for those who have no knowledge and for those who are wandering from the true way, because he himself is feeble;

Common New Testament

He can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, since he himself is beset with weakness.

Daniel Mace New Testament

he might have the greater compassion for those who sin through ignorance or mistake. and for the same reason

Godbey New Testament

being able to sympathize with the ignorant and erring, since himself is also compassed about with infirmity;

Goodspeed New Testament

He can sympathize with the ignorant and misguided because he is himself subject to weakness,

John Wesley New Testament

Who can have compassion on the ignorant and the wandering, seeing he himself also is compassed with infirmity,

Julia Smith Translation

Being able to moderate the passions to the ignorant, and deceived; since he also is surrounded with weakness.

King James 2000

Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are wayward; for he himself also is beset with weakness.

Lexham Expanded Bible

being able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and led astray, since he himself also is surrounded by weakness,

Modern King James verseion

who can have compassion on the ignorant and on those who are out of the way. For he himself also is compassed with weakness.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

which can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the high way, because that he himself also is compassed with infirmity:

Moffatt New Testament

can deal gently with those who err through ignorance, since he himself is beset with weakness ??3 which obliges him to present offerings for his own sins as well as for those of the People.

Montgomery New Testament

He is able to deal gently with the ignorant and erring, since he himself also is encompassed with moral weakness,

NET Bible

He is able to deal compassionately with those who are ignorant and erring, since he also is subject to weakness,

New Heart English Bible

The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.

Noyes New Testament

being able to be forbearing toward the ignorant and the erring, since he himself also is compassed with infirmity;

Sawyer New Testament

being able to deal gently with the ignorant and erring, since he is himself encompassed with infirmity,

The Emphasized Bible

Able, to have a measure of feeling, for the ignorant and erring, - since, he also, is compassed with weakness;

Thomas Haweis New Testament

being able to feel tenderly for the ignorant and erroneous; forasmuch as he is himself encompassed with infirmity.

Twentieth Century New Testament

And he is able to sympathize with the ignorant and deluded, since he is himself subject to weakness,

Webster

Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

Weymouth New Testament

and must be one who is able to bear patiently with the ignorant and erring, because he himself also is beset with infirmity.

Williams New Testament

Such a one is capable of dealing tenderly with the ignorant and erring ones, since he himself is subject to weakness,

World English Bible

The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.

Worrell New Testament

able to bear with the ignorant and erring, since he himself also is encompassed with infirmity;

Worsley New Testament

who can have due compassion on the ignorant and those that are going astray; seeing he himself also is surrounded with infirmity:

Youngs Literal Translation

able to be gentle to those ignorant and going astray, since himself also is compassed with infirmity;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
δύναμαι 
Dunamai 
can , cannot , be able, may , able,
Usage: 140

μετριοπαθέω 
metriopatheo 
Usage: 1

the ignorant
G50
ἀγνοέω 
Agnoeo 
Usage: 22

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

on
μετριοπαθέω 
metriopatheo 
Usage: 1

them that are out of the way
πλανάω 
Planao 
deceive, err, go astray, seduce, wander, be out of the way
Usage: 25

ἐπεί 
Epei 
Usage: 26

he
περίκειμαι 
Perikeimai 
be hanged, be bound with, be compassed with, be compassed about with Trans
Usage: 2


Usage: 0


and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

is compassed with
περίκειμαι 
Perikeimai 
be hanged, be bound with, be compassed with, be compassed about with Trans
Usage: 2

Context Readings

A High Priest Like Melchizedek

1 For every high priest taken from amongst men is established for men in things relating to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins; 2 being able to exercise forbearance towards the ignorant and erring, since he himself also is clothed with infirmity; 3 and, on account of this infirmity, he ought, even as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

Cross References

Hebrews 2:18

for, in that himself has suffered, being tempted, he is able to help those that are being tempted.

Hebrews 7:28

For the law constitutes men high priests, having infirmity; but the word of the swearing of the oath which is after the law, a Son perfected for ever.

Hebrews 4:15

For we have not a high priest not able to sympathise with our infirmities, but tempted in all things in like manner, sin apart.

Exodus 32:2-5

And Aaron said to them, Break off the golden rings that are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me.

Exodus 32:8

They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them: they have made themselves a molten calf, and have bowed down to it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, This is thy god, Israel, who has brought thee up out of the land of Egypt!

Exodus 32:21-24

And Moses said to Aaron, What has this people done to thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin on them?

Numbers 12:1-9

And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had taken; for he had taken a Cushite as wife.

Numbers 15:22-29

And if ye sin inadvertently, and do not all these commandments, which Jehovah hath spoken unto Moses,

Numbers 20:10-12

And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said to them, Hear now, ye rebels: shall we bring forth to you water out of this rock?

Judges 2:17

And yet they did not listen to their judges; for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed down to them; they soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the LORD, and they did not do so.

Isaiah 30:11

get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us!

Luke 22:32

but I have besought for thee that thy faith fail not; and thou, when once thou hast been restored, confirm thy brethren.

2 Corinthians 11:30

If it is needful to boast, I will boast in the things which concern my infirmity.

2 Corinthians 12:5

Of such a one I will boast, but of myself I will not boast, unless in my weaknesses.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

And he said to me, My grace suffices thee; for my power is perfected in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather boast in my weaknesses, that the power of the Christ may dwell upon me.

Galatians 4:13

But ye know that in weakness of the flesh I announced the glad tidings to you at the first;

1 Timothy 1:13

who before was a blasphemer and persecutor, and an insolent overbearing man: but mercy was shewn me because I did it ignorantly, in unbelief.

Hebrews 12:13

and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned aside; but that rather it may be healed.

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