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The high priest » Inferior to Christ in » Offering oftentimes the same sacrifices
For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are sanctified.
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Nor yet that He should offer Himself often, even as the high priest enters into the Holy of Holies every year with the blood of others (for then He must have suffered often since the foundation of the world), but now once in the end of the world He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
And indeed every priest stands daily ministering and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right of God,
The high priest » Inferior to Christ in » Being of the order of aaron
where the Forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
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Therefore if perfection were by the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the Law), what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron? For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made in the law also. For He of whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no man gave attendance at the altar. read more.
For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood. And it is still far more evident, since there arises another priest after the likeness of Melchizedek, who is made, not according to the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an endless life. For He testifies, "You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek."
For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood. And it is still far more evident, since there arises another priest after the likeness of Melchizedek, who is made, not according to the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an endless life. For He testifies, "You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek."
For if indeed He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the Law, who serve the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was warned of God when he was about to make the tabernacle. For, He says "See that you make all things according to the pattern shown to you in the mountain."
The high priest » Inferior to Christ in » Needing to make atonement for his own sins
But once in the year into the second the high priest goes alone, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the errors of the people)
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who can have compassion on the ignorant and on those who are out of the way. For he himself also is compassed with weakness.
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For such a high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners and made higher than the heavens, who does not need, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice daily, first for his own sins and then for the people's sins. For He did this once for all, when He offered up Himself. For the Law appoints men high priests who have infirmity, but the word of the swearing of an oath, after the Law, has consecrated the Son forever, having been perfected.
The high priest » Inferior to Christ in » Entering into holiest every year
But once in the year into the second the high priest goes alone, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the errors of the people)
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nor by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered once for all into the Holies, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
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Nor yet that He should offer Himself often, even as the high priest enters into the Holy of Holies every year with the blood of others
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The high priest » Inferior to Christ in » Being made without an oath
And inasmuch as He was not made priest without an oath (for those priests were made without an oath, but this one was made with an oath by Him who said to Him, "The Lord swore and will not repent, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek,") by so much was Jesus made a surety of a better covenant.
The high priest » Inferior to Christ in » Not being able to continue
And they truly were many priests, because they were not allowed to continue because of death; but He, because He continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood.