Hebrews 2:17

Bible in Basic English 1965

Because of this it was necessary for him to be made like his brothers in every way, so that he might be a high priest full of mercy and keeping faith in everything to do with God, making offerings for the sins of the people.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 29:24

And the priests put them to death, and made a sin-offering with their blood on the altar, to take away the sin of all Israel: for the king gave orders that the burned offering and the sin-offering were for all Israel.

Isaiah 11:5

And righteousness will be the cord of his robe, and good faith the band round his breast.

Ezekiel 45:15

And one lamb from the flock out of every two hundred, from all the families of Israel, for a meal offering and for a burned offering and for peace-offerings, to take away their sin, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 45:17

And the ruler will be responsible for the burned offering and the meal offering and the drink offering, at the feasts and the new moons and the Sabbaths, at all the fixed feasts of the children of Israel: he will give the sin-offering and meal offering and burned offering and the peace-offerings, to take away the sin of the children of Israel.

Ezekiel 45:20

And this you are to do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who is in error and for the feeble-minded: you are to make the house free from sin.

Daniel 9:24

Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place.

Leviticus 14:18

And the rest of the oil in the priest's hand he will put on the head of him who is to be made clean; and so the priest will make him free from sin before the Lord.

Leviticus 16:16

And let him make the holy place free from whatever is unclean among the children of Israel and from their wrongdoing in all their sins; and let him do the same for the Tent of meeting, which has its place among an unclean people.

Leviticus 6:30

No sin-offering, the blood of which is taken into the Tent of meeting, to take away sin in the holy place, may be used for food: it is to be burned with fire.

Leviticus 8:15

And he put it to death; and Moses took the blood and put it on the horns of the altar and round it with his finger, and made the altar clean, draining out the blood at the base of the altar; so he made it holy, taking away what was unclean.

Numbers 15:25

So the priest will make the people free from sin, and they will have forgiveness; for it was an error, and they have given their offering made by fire to the Lord, and their sin-offering before the Lord, on account of their error:

Romans 15:17

So I have pride in Christ Jesus in the things which are God's.

Romans 5:10

For if, when we were haters of God, the death of his Son made us at peace with him, much more, now that we are his friends, will we have salvation through his life;

Ephesians 2:16

And that the two might come into agreement with God in one body through the cross, so putting an end to that division.

Colossians 1:21

And you, who in the past were cut off and at war with God in your minds through evil works, he has now made one

Hebrews 10:21

And having a great priest over the house of God,

Hebrews 2:11

For he who makes holy and those who are made holy are all of one family; and for this reason it is no shame for him to give them the name of brothers,

Hebrews 2:14

And because the children are flesh and blood, he took a body himself and became like them; so that by his death he might put an end to him who had the power of death, that is to say, the Evil One;

Hebrews 2:16

For, truly, he does not take on the life of angels, but that of the seed of Abraham.

Hebrews 3:1

For this reason, holy brothers, marked out to have a part in heaven, give thought to Jesus the representative and high priest of our faith;

Hebrews 3:2

Who kept faith with God who gave him his place, even as Moses did in all his house.

Hebrews 3:5

And Moses certainly kept faith as a servant, in all his house, and as a witness of those things which were to be said later;

Hebrews 4:14

Having then a great high priest, who has made his way through the heavens, even Jesus the Son of God, let us be strong in our faith.

Hebrews 4:15

For we have not a high priest who is not able to be touched by the feelings of our feeble flesh; but we have one who has been tested in all points as we ourselves are tested, but without sin.

Hebrews 5:1

Every high priest who is taken from among men is given his position to take care of the interests of men in those things which have to do with God, so that he may make offerings for sins.

Hebrews 5:10

Being named by God a high priest of the order of Melchizedek.

Hebrews 5:2

He is able to have feeling for those who have no knowledge and for those who are wandering from the true way, because he himself is feeble;

Hebrews 5:5

In the same way Christ did not take for himself the glory of being made a high priest, but was given it by him who said, You are my Son, this day I have given you being:

Hebrews 6:20

Where Jesus has gone before us, as a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

Hebrews 7:26

It was right for us to have such a high priest, one who is holy and without evil, doing no wrong, having no part with sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

Hebrews 7:28

The law makes high priests of men who are feeble; but the word of the oath, which was made after the law, gives that position to a Son, in whom all good is for ever complete.

Hebrews 8:1

Now of the things we are saying this is the chief point: We have such a high priest, who has taken his place at the right hand of God's high seat of glory in heaven,

Hebrews 8:3

Now every high priest is given authority to take to God the things which are given and to make offerings; so that it is necessary for this man, like them, to have something for an offering.

Hebrews 9:11

But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world,