Hebrews 2:17

New Century Version

For this reason Jesus had to be made like his brothers and sisters in every way so he could be their merciful and faithful high priest in service to God. Then Jesus could die in their place to take away their sins.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 29:24

the priests killed them. With the goats’ blood they made an offering on the altar to remove the sins of the Israelites so they would belong to God. The king had said that the burnt offering and sin offering should be made for all Israel.

Isaiah 11:5

Goodness and fairness will give him strength, like a belt around his waist.

Ezekiel 45:15

You should give one sheep from each flock of two hundred from the watering places of Israel. All these are to be offered for the grain offerings, burnt offerings, and fellowship offerings to remove sins so you will belong to God, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 45:17

It will be the ruler’s responsibility to supply the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings. These offerings will be given at the feasts, at the New Moons, on the Sabbaths, and at all the other feasts of Israel. The ruler will supply the sin offerings, grain offerings, and fellowship offerings to pay for the sins of Israel.

Ezekiel 45:20

You will do the same thing on the seventh day of the month for anyone who has sinned by accident or without knowing it. This is how you make the Temple pure and ready for God’s service.

Daniel 9:24

“God has ordered four hundred ninety years for your people and your holy city for these reasons: to stop people from turning against God; to put an end to sin; to take away evil; to bring in goodness that continues forever; to bring about the vision and prophecy; and to appoint a most holy place.

Leviticus 14:18

He will put the rest of the oil that is in his left hand on the head of the person to be made clean. In this way the priest will make that person clean so he can belong to the Lord again.

Leviticus 16:16

Because the people of Israel have been unclean, Aaron will perform the acts to make the Most Holy Place ready for service to the Lord. Then it will be clean from the sins and crimes of the Israelites. He must also do this for the Meeting Tent, because it stays in the middle of unclean people.

Leviticus 6:30

But if the blood of the sin offering is taken into the Meeting Tent and used to remove sin in the Holy Place, that sin offering must be burned with fire. It must not be eaten.

Leviticus 8:15

Moses killed the bull, took the blood, and with his finger put some of it on all the corners of the altar, to make it pure. Then he poured out the rest of the blood at the bottom of the altar. In this way he made it holy and ready for service to God.

Numbers 15:25

“ ‘The priest will remove that sin for all the Israelites so they will belong to the Lord. They are forgiven, because they didn’t know they were sinning. For the wrong they did they brought offerings to the Lord, an offering by fire and a sin offering.

Romans 15:17

So I am proud of what I have done for God in Christ Jesus.

Romans 5:10

While we were God’s enemies, he made us his friends through the death of his Son. Surely, now that we are his friends, he will save us through his Son’s life.

Ephesians 2:16

It was also Christ’s purpose to end the hatred between the two groups, to make them into one body, and to bring them back to God. Christ did all this with his death on the cross.

Colossians 1:21

At one time you were separated from God. You were his enemies in your minds, and the evil things you did were against God.

Hebrews 10:21

And since we have a great priest over God’s house,

Hebrews 2:11

Jesus, who makes people holy, and those who are made holy are from the same family. So he is not ashamed to call them his brothers and sisters.

Hebrews 2:14

Since these children are people with physical bodies, Jesus himself became like them. He did this so that, by dying, he could destroy the one who has the power of death—the devil—

Hebrews 2:16

Clearly, it is not angels that Jesus helps, but the people who are from Abraham.

Hebrews 3:1

So all of you holy brothers and sisters, who were called by God, think about Jesus, who was sent to us and is the high priest of our faith.

Hebrews 3:2

Jesus was faithful to God as Moses was in God’s family.

Hebrews 3:5

Moses was faithful in God’s family as a servant, and he told what God would say in the future.

Hebrews 4:14

Since we have a great high priest, Jesus the Son of God, who has gone into heaven, let us hold on to the faith we have.

Hebrews 4:15

For our high priest is able to understand our weaknesses. He was tempted in every way that we are, but he did not sin.

Hebrews 5:1

Every high priest is chosen from among other people. He is given the work of going before God for them to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.

Hebrews 5:10

In this way God made Jesus a high priest, a priest like Melchizedek.

Hebrews 5:2

Since he himself is weak, he is able to be gentle with those who do not understand and who are doing wrong things.

Hebrews 5:5

So also Christ did not choose himself to have the honor of being a high priest, but God chose him. God said to him, “You are my Son. Today I have become your Father.”

Hebrews 6:20

where Jesus has gone ahead of us and for us. He has become the high priest forever, a priest like Melchizedek.

Hebrews 7:26

Jesus is the kind of high priest we need. He is holy, sinless, pure, not influenced by sinners, and he is raised above the heavens.

Hebrews 7:28

The law chooses high priests who are people with weaknesses, but the word of God’s oath came later than the law. It made God’s Son to be the high priest, and that Son has been made perfect forever.

Hebrews 8:1

Here is the point of what we are saying: We have a high priest who sits on the right side of God’s throne in heaven.

Hebrews 8:3

Every high priest has the work of offering gifts and sacrifices to God. So our high priest must also offer something to God.

Hebrews 9:11

But when Christ came as the high priest of the good things we now have, he entered the greater and more perfect tent. It is not made by humans and does not belong to this world.