Hebrews 5:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² He is able to deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is subject to weakness,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² He is able to exercise gentleness and forbearance toward the ignorant and erring, since he himself also is liable to moral weakness and physical infirmity.

American Standard Version (1901)

² who can bear gently with the ignorant and erring, for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity;

Common English Bible

² The high priest is able to deal gently with the ignorant and those who are misled since he himself is prone to weakness.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² he is able to commiserate with those who are ignorant and who wander astray, because he himself is also encompassed by infirmity.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Who can have compassion on them that are ignorant and that err: because he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

Hebrews 5:2 Cross References

Exodus 32:8

they have been quick to turn aside from the way that I commanded them; they have cast for themselves an image of a calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’ ”

Isaiah 29:24

And those who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will accept instruction.”

Isaiah 30:11

leave the way; turn aside from the path; let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”

Luke 22:32

but I have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail, and you, when once you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”

2 Corinthians 11:30

If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.

2 Corinthians 12:5

On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses.

Galatians 4:13

You know that it was because of a physical infirmity that I first announced the gospel to you;

Ephesians 4:18

they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart.

1 Timothy 1:13

even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a man of violence. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,

Hebrews 12:13

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.

Hebrews 2:17

Therefore he had to become like his brothers and sisters in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make a sacrifice of atonement for the sins of the people.

Hebrews 2:18

Because he himself was tested by what he suffered, he is able to help those who are being tested.

Hebrews 4:15

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin.

Hebrews 7:28

For the law appoints as high priests humans, who are subject to weakness, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever.

Hebrews 9:7

but only the high priest goes into the second, and he but once a year and not without taking the blood that he offers for himself and for the sins committed unintentionally by the people.

James 5:19

My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and is brought back by another,

1 Peter 2:25

For you were going astray like sheep, but now you have returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.

Judges 2:17

Yet they did not listen even to their judges, for they lusted after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their ancestors had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord; they did not follow their example.