Hebrews 5:2 - Revised Standard Version CI

² He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with 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.

Hebrews 5:2 Cross References

Exodus 32:8

they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten 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 murmur will accept instruction.”

Isaiah 30:11

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

Luke 22:32

but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail; and when you have turned again, strengthen your brethren.”

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 this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses.

Galatians 4:13

you know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first;

Ephesians 4:18

they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart;

1 Timothy 1:13

though I formerly blasphemed and persecuted and insulted him; 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 be made like his brethren in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make expiation for the sins of the people.

Hebrews 2:18

For because he himself has suffered and been tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

Hebrews 4:15

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

Hebrews 7:28

Indeed, the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect for ever.

Hebrews 9:7

but into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood which he offers for himself and for the errors of the people.

James 5:19

My brethren, if any one among you wanders from the truth and some one brings him back,

1 Peter 2:25

For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.

Judges 2:17

And yet they did not listen to their judges; for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed down to them; they soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so.