Whence he ought in all things to be assimilated to the brothers, that he may be a merciful and faithful chief priest as to things relating to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

Whence, holy brothers, partakers of the heavenly call, consider the apostle and chief priest of our profession, Jesus,

HAVING therefore a great chief priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast the profession.

For we have not a chief priest who cannot sympathise with our infirmities, but one tried in all respects as we are, without sin.

For every chief priest taken from men is appointed in behalf of men over things relating to God, that he may offer gifts and sacrifices for sins,

So also Christ did not put on himself the honor of being made a chief priest, but he that said to him, Thou art my Son, to-day have I begotten thee;

as also in another place he says, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

being called by God a chief priest after the order of Melchisedec.

where our forerunner Jesus entered, made after the order of Melchisedec a chief priest forever.

For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham as he returned from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither a beginning of days nor end of life, but being made like the Son of God, continues a priest forever.

If therefore there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood,??or the people received the law under it,??hat need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchisedec and not to be called after the order of Aaron?

And moreover, [this] is still further evident, if another priest is raised up according to the likeness of Melchisedec,

who was not a priest after the law of an external commandment, but after the power of imperishable life.

For it is testified, Thou art a priest forever, after the order of Melchisedec.

And as he was not [constituted] without swearing,??21 for they were made priests without swearing, but he with swearing by him who says to him, The Lord swore, and he will not change, You are a priest forever;??22 by so much is Jesus the pledge of a better covenant.

For such a chief priest also was suitable for us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens,

BUT the chief thing in addition to what has been said is, that we have such a chief priest who sat on the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens,

For every chief priest is constituted to offer gifts and sacrifices, whence it was necessary that this man also should have something to offer.

For if he had been on earth he would not have been a priest, there being priests to offer, the gifts according to the law,

but into the second once a year only the chief priest [enters], not without blood, which he offers for his errors and those of the people,

But Christ having come, a chief priest of the good times that were to come, with a greater and a more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

not that he may often present himself, as the chief priest enters into the sanctuary once a year with the blood of another [being];

And every priest stood daily performing service and presenting often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;

but this [priest] having offered one sacrifice forever for sins, sat down on the right hand of God,

and [having] a great priest over the house of God,

For the bodies of those animals whose blood is carried into the sanctuary by the chief priest are burnt without the encampment.