17 Bible Verses about Christ, The High Priest

There Jesus entered for us in advance, when he became high priest for ever with the rank of Melchizedek.

Just as elsewhere he says, Thou art a priest for ever, with the rank of Melchizedek.

This becomes all the more plain when another priest emerges resembling Melchizedek,

for the witness to him is, Thou art priest for ever, with the rank of Melchizedek.

As it is, however, the divine service he has obtained is superior, owing to the fact that he mediates a superior covenant, enacted with superior promises.

Further, if the Levitical priesthood had been the means of reaching perfection (for it was on the basis of that priesthood that the Law was enacted for the People), why was it still necessary for another sort of priest to emerge with the rank of Melchizedek, instead of simply with the rank of Aaron

one who has become a priest by the power of an indissoluble Life and not by the law of an external command;

The point of all this is, we do have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of Majesty in the heavens, and who officiates in the sanctuary or true tabernacle set up by the Lord and not by man.

one who has no need, like yonder high priests, day by day to offer sacrifices first for their own sins and then for those of the People ??he did that once for all in offering up himself.

Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, like the high priest entering the holy place every year with blood that was not his own: ??26 for in that case he would have had to suffer repeatedly, ever since the world was founded. Nay, once for all, at the end of the world, he has appeared with his self-sacrifice to abolish sin.

Now, while the copies of the heavenly things had to be cleansed with sacrifices like these, the heavenly things themselves required nobler sacrifices.

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkled on defiled persons, give them a holiness that bears on bodily purity, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who in the spirit of the eternal offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve a living God?

As we have a great high priest, then, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession;

It is as he suffered by his temptations that he is able to help the tempted.

for ours is no high priest who is incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every respect like ourselves, yet without sinning.

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who in the spirit of the eternal offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve a living God?

Hence for all time he is able to save those who approach God through him, as he is always living to intercede on their behalf.

For Christ has not entered a holy place which human hands have made (a mere type of the reality!); he has entered heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.

It was for you first that God raised up his Servant, and sent him to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways."

For the Law appoints human beings in their weakness to the priesthood; but the word of the Oath appoints a Son who is made perfect for ever.

Also, while they became priests in large numbers, since death prevents them from continuing to serve,

Holy brothers, you who participate in a heavenly calling, look at Jesus then, at the apostle and high priest of our confession;

Also, it is an office which no one elects to take for himself; he is called to it by God, just as Aaron was. Similarly Christ was not raised to the glory of the high priesthood by himself but by Him who declared to him, Thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father.

For the Law appoints human beings in their weakness to the priesthood; but the word of the Oath appoints a Son who is made perfect for ever.

Such was the high priest for us, saintly, innocent, unstained, lifted high above the heavens, far from all contact with the sinful,

A better Hope, because it was not promised apart from an oath. Previous priests became priests apart from any oath, but he has an oath from Him who said to him, The Lord has sworn, and he will not change his mind, thou art a priest for ever.

As we have a great high priest, then, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession;

one who has no need, like yonder high priests, day by day to offer sacrifices first for their own sins and then for those of the People ??he did that once for all in offering up himself.

not taking any blood of goats and oxen but his own blood, and entered once for all into the Holy place. He secured an eternal redemption.

He had to resemble his brothers in every respect, in order to prove a merciful and faithful high priest in things divine, to expiate the sins of the People.

he is faithful to Him who appointed him. For while Moses also was faithful in every department of God's house,