Hebrews 8:3

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

Cross References

John 6:51

I am the living bread, who descended from heaven.

Romans 4:25

who was handed over because of our offenses, and who rose again for our justification.

Romans 5:6

Yet why did Christ, while we were still infirm, at the proper time, suffer death for the impious?

Romans 5:8

But God demonstrates his love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, at the proper time,

Galatians 2:20

I live; yet now, it is not I, but truly Christ, who lives in me. And though I live now in the flesh, I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and who delivered himself for me.

Ephesians 5:2

And walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and delivered himself for us, as an oblation and a sacrifice to God, with a fragrance of sweetness.

Titus 2:14

He gave himself for our sake, so that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and might cleanse for himself an acceptable people, pursuers of good works.

Hebrews 2:17

Therefore, it is fitting for him to be made similar to his brothers in all things, so that he might become a merciful and faithful High Priest before God, in order that he might bring forgiveness to the offenses of the people.

Hebrews 3:1

Therefore, holy brothers, sharers in the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus.

Hebrews 5:1

For every high priest, having been taken from among men, is appointed on behalf of men toward the things which pertain to God, so that he may offer gifts and sacrifices on behalf of sins;

Hebrews 7:27

And he has no need, daily, in the manner of other priests, to offer sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for those of the people. For he has done this once, by offering himself.

Hebrews 8:4

And so, if he were upon the earth, he would not be a priest, since there would be others to offer gifts according to the law,

Hebrews 9:14

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the Holy Spirit has offered himself, immaculate, to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, in order to serve the living God?