Hebrews 8:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³ For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; hence it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ For every high priest is appointed to offer up gifts and sacrifices; so it is essential for this [High Priest] to have some offering to make also.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that this high priest also have somewhat to offer.

Common English Bible

³ Every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices. So it’s necessary for this high priest also to have something to offer.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices. Therefore, it is necessary for him also to have something to offer.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that he also should have some thing to offer.

Hebrews 8:3 Cross References

John 6:51

I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

Romans 4:25

who was put to death for our trespasses and raised for our justification.

Romans 5:6

While we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

Romans 5:8

But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.

Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Ephesians 5:2

And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Titus 2:14

who gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity and to purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.

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 3:1

Therefore, holy brethren, who share in a heavenly call, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession.

Hebrews 5:1

For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.

Hebrews 7:27

He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people; he did this once for all when he offered up himself.

Hebrews 8:4

Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law.

Hebrews 9:14

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.