Hebrews 2:17

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Therefore, he had to become like his brothers and sisters so that he could be merciful. He became like them so that he could serve as a faithful chief priest in God’s presence and make peace with God for their sins.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 29:24

The priests slaughtered the goats and made their blood an offering for sin at the altar to make peace with the Lord for Israel. The king had said that the burnt offerings and offerings for sin should be for all Israel.

Isaiah 11:5

Justice will be the belt around his waist. Faithfulness will be the belt around his hips.

Ezekiel 45:15

You must take one sheep out of every 200 from the well-watered pastures of Israel. You must sacrifice them with grain offerings, burnt offerings, and fellowship offerings to make peace with the Lord, declares the Almighty Lord.

Ezekiel 45:17

Then the prince is responsible to provide burnt offerings, grain offerings, and wine offerings at the annual festivals, the New Moon Festivals, the weekly days of rest—holy days, and all the other appointed festivals of the nation of Israel. He must prepare offerings for sin, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and fellowship offerings to make peace with the Lord for the nation of Israel.

Ezekiel 45:20

You must do the same on the seventh day of the month for everyone who unintentionally does something wrong and is unaware of it. So you must make peace with the Lord for the temple.

Daniel 9:24

“Seventy sets of seven time periods have been assigned for your people and your holy city. These time periods will serve to bring an end to rebellion, to stop sin, to forgive wrongs, to usher in everlasting righteousness, to put a seal on a prophet’s vision, and to anoint the Most Holy One.

Leviticus 14:18

The priest will put the rest of the oil in his hand on the head of the one to be cleansed. So he will make peace with the Lord for that person in the Lord’s presence.

Leviticus 16:16

So he will make peace with the Lord for all the sins the Israelites committed against the holy place. These sins happened because the Israelites were unclean and because they committed rebellious acts. He will do the same for the tent of meeting which is among an unclean people.

Leviticus 6:30

Any offering for sin must not be eaten if some of the blood was brought into the holy place in the tent of meeting to make peace with the Lord. It must be burned.”

Leviticus 8:15

When it was slaughtered, Moses took the blood and put it on the horns of the altar all around with his finger and cleansed the altar from sins. He poured the rest of the blood at the bottom of the altar and declared it holy so that priests could use it to make peace with the Lord.

Numbers 15:25

The priest will make peace with the Lord for the whole community of Israel. Then they will be forgiven because the wrongdoing was unintentional and they brought these two offerings to the Lord for their sin: an offering by fire and an offering for sin.

Romans 15:17

So Christ Jesus gives me the right to brag about what I’m doing for God.

Romans 5:10

If the death of his Son restored our relationship with God while we were still his enemies, we are even more certain that, because of this restored relationship, the life of his Son will save us.

Ephesians 2:16

He also brought them back to God in one body by his cross, on which he killed the hostility.

Colossians 1:21

Once you were separated from God. The evil things you did showed your hostile attitude.

Hebrews 10:21

We have a superior priest in charge of God’s house.

Hebrews 2:11

Jesus, who makes people holy, and all those who are made holy have the same Father. That is why Jesus isn’t ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.

Hebrews 2:14

Since all of these sons and daughters have flesh and blood, Jesus took on flesh and blood to be like them. He did this so that by dying he would destroy the one who had power over death (that is, the devil).

Hebrews 2:16

So Jesus helps Abraham’s descendants rather than helping angels.

Hebrews 3:1

Brothers and sisters, you are holy partners in a heavenly calling. So look carefully at Jesus, the apostle and chief priest about whom we make our declaration of faith.

Hebrews 3:2

Jesus is faithful to God, who appointed him, in the same way that Moses was faithful when he served in God’s house.

Hebrews 3:5

Moses was a faithful servant in God’s household. He told ⌞the people⌟ what God would say in the future.

Hebrews 4:14

We need to hold on to our declaration of faith: We have a superior chief priest who has gone through the heavens. That person is Jesus, the Son of God.

Hebrews 4:15

We have a chief priest who is able to sympathize with our weaknesses. He was tempted in every way that we are, but he didn’t sin.

Hebrews 5:1

Every chief priest is chosen from humans to represent them in front of God, that is, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sin.

Hebrews 5:10

God appointed him chief priest in the way Melchizedek was a priest.

Hebrews 5:2

The chief priest can be gentle with people who are ignorant and easily deceived, because he also has weaknesses.

Hebrews 5:5

So Christ did not take the glory of being a chief priest for himself. Instead, the glory was given to him by God, who said, “You are my Son. Today I have become your Father.”

Hebrews 6:20

where Jesus went before us on our behalf. He has become the chief priest forever in the way Melchizedek was a priest.

Hebrews 7:26

We need a chief priest who is holy, innocent, pure, set apart from sinners, and who holds the honored position—the one next to God the Father on the heavenly throne.

Hebrews 7:28

Moses’ Teachings designated mortals as chief priests even though they had weaknesses. But God’s promise, which came after Moses’ Teachings, designated the Son who forever accomplished everything that God required.

Hebrews 8:1

The main point we want to make is this: We do have this kind of chief priest. This chief priest holds the honored position—the one next to the majestic God [the Father] on the heavenly throne.

Hebrews 8:3

Every chief priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices. Therefore, this chief priest had to offer something.

Hebrews 9:11

But Christ came as a chief priest of the good things that are now here. Christ went through a better, more perfect tent that was not made by human hands and that is not part of this created world.