Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same nature, that through death he might destroy him who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

For because he himself has suffered, being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

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

And no one takes the honor upon himself, but he is called by God, just as Aaron was.

So also Christ did not exalt himself to become a high priest, but it was he who said to him, "You are my son, today I have begotten you";

For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,

One might even say that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham,

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

But into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Nor was it that he should offer himself again and again, as the high priest enters the holy place year by year with blood not his own.

For then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary and lose heart.