Hebrews 7:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²² accordingly Jesus has also become the guarantor of a better covenant.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² In keeping with [the oath's greater strength and force], Jesus has become the Guarantee of a better (stronger) agreement [a more excellent and more advantageous covenant].

American Standard Version (1901)

²² by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.

Common English Bible

²² As a result, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² By so much, Jesus has been made the sponsor of a better testament.

Hebrews 7:22 Cross References

1 Corinthians 11:25

In the same way he took the cup also, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”

Genesis 44:32

For your servant became surety for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame in the sight of my father all my life.’

Hebrews 13:20

Now may the God of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,

Hebrews 12:24

and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

Genesis 43:9

I myself will be surety for him; you can hold me accountable for him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever.

Luke 22:20

And he did the same with the cup after supper, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.

Matthew 26:28

for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Mark 14:24

He said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.

Daniel 9:27

He shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall make sacrifice and offering cease, and in their place shall be a desolating sacrilege until the decreed end is poured out upon the desolator.”

Proverbs 20:16

Take the garment of one who has given surety for a stranger; seize the pledge given as surety for foreigners.

Proverbs 6:1

My child, if you have given your pledge to your neighbor, if you have bound yourself to another,

Psalm 119:122

Guarantee your servant’s well-being; do not let the godless oppress me.

Isaiah 38:14

Like a swallow or a crane I clamor; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security!

Hebrews 7:23

Furthermore, the former priests were many in number because they were prevented by death from continuing in office,

Hebrews 8:13

In speaking of a new covenant, he has made the first one obsolete, and what is obsolete and growing old will soon disappear.