Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Darby Translation

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

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:

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 chief priest -- out of men taken -- in behalf of men is set in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins, 2 able to be gentle to those ignorant and going astray, since himself also is compassed with infirmity; 3 and because of this infirmity he ought, as for the people, so also for himself to offer for sins;


Cross References

Hebrews 2:18

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

Hebrews 7:28

for the law doth appoint men chief priests, having infirmity, but the word of the oath that is after the law appointeth the Son -- to the age having been perfected.

Hebrews 4:15

for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but one tempted in all things in like manner -- apart from sin;

Exodus 32:2-5

And Aaron saith unto them, 'Break off the rings of gold which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring in unto me;'

Exodus 32:8

they have turned aside hastily from the way that I have commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten calf, and bow themselves to it, and sacrifice to it, and say, These thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.'

Exodus 32:21-24

And Moses saith unto Aaron, 'What hath this people done to thee, that thou hast brought in upon it a great sin?'

Numbers 12:1-9

And Miriam speaketh -- Aaron also -- against Moses concerning the circumstance of the Cushite woman whom he had taken: for a Cushite woman he had taken;

Numbers 15:22-29

'And when ye err, and do not all these commands which Jehovah hath spoken unto Moses,

Numbers 20:10-12

and Moses and Aaron assemble the assembly unto the front of the rock, and he saith to them, 'Hear, I pray you, O rebels, from this rock do we bring out to you water?'

Judges 2:17

and also unto their judges they have not hearkened, but have gone a-whoring after other gods, and bow themselves to them; they have turned aside with haste out of the way in which their fathers walked to obey the commands of Jehovah -- they have not done so.

Isaiah 30:11

Turn aside from the way, decline from the path, Cause to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.'

Luke 22:32

and I besought for thee, that thy faith may not fail; and thou, when thou didst turn, strengthen thy brethren.'

2 Corinthians 11:30

if to boast it behoveth me, of the things of my infirmity I will boast;

2 Corinthians 12:5

Of such an one I will boast, and of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities,

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

and He said to me, 'Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:

Galatians 4:13

and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,

1 Timothy 1:13

who before was speaking evil, and persecuting, and insulting, but I found kindness, because, being ignorant, I did it in unbelief,

Hebrews 12:13

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

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