20 Bible Verses about Christ, The High Priest

where our precursor, Jesus, has entered for us and is made high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

The LORD has sworn and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

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

And it is yet far more manifest: if there arises another priest who is like unto Melchisedec,

for the testimony is of this manner, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

but now a more excellent ministry is his, in that he is the mediator of a better testament, which was established upon better promises.

If therefore 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 Melchisedec and not be called after the order of Aaron?

who is not made according to the law of a carnal commandment, but by the virtue of an indissoluble life;

Now of the things which we have spoken, this is the sum: We have such a high priest who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

who needs not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins and then for the people's; for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

nor yet that he should offer himself many times (as the high priest enters into the sanctuary each year with blood that is not his own); otherwise it would have been necessary for him to suffer many times since the foundation of the world; but now once in the consummation of the ages he has appeared to abolish sin by the sacrifice of himself.

So that it was necessary that the figures of the heavenly things should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

For if the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctified to the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of the Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from the works of death to serve the living God?

but this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, is seated at the right hand of God,

Having, therefore, a great high priest who penetrated the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast this profession of our hope.

For in that he himself has suffered and was tempted, he is also powerful to help those that are tempted.

For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

otherwise it would have been necessary for him to suffer many times since the foundation of the world; but now once in the consummation of the ages he has appeared to abolish sin by the sacrifice of himself.

how much more shall the blood of the Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from the works of death to serve the living God?

Therefore he is able also to save to the uttermost those that come unto God by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.

For Christ is not entered into the sanctuary made with hands (which is a figure of the true), but into the heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us,

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the LORD lift up his face upon thee, and place peace in thee.

Unto you first, God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, that each one of you might turn from his iniquities.

For the law makes men high priests who have weakness; but the word of the oath, which was after the law, has made perfect a Son forever.

And the others, truly, were many priests because they were not able to continue by reason of death:

Therefore, brethren, saints, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,

And no one takes this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron. So also the Christ did not glorify himself to make himself high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son; today have I begotten thee.

For the law makes men high priests who have weakness; but the word of the oath, which was after the law, has made perfect a Son forever.

For it was expedient that we have such a high priest, who is holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens,

Then Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought forth bread and wine, for he was the priest of the most high God. And he blessed him and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of the heavens and of the earth; and blessed be the most high God, who has delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And Abram gave him tithes of all.

And even more, inasmuch as it is not without an oath (for the others indeed without an oath were made priests, but this one with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord swore and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec);

He shall build the temple of the LORD, and he shall bear the glory and shall sit and rule upon his throne, and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

Having, therefore, a great high priest who penetrated the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast this profession of our hope.

who needs not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins and then for the people's; for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the sanctuary designed for eternal redemption.

Therefore in all things he should be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

who was faithful to him that appointed him over all his house, as also Moses was faithful.