Hebrews 2:17

Weymouth NT

And for this purpose it was necessary that in all respects He should be made to resemble His brothers, so that He might become a compassionate and faithful High Priest in things relating to God, in order to atone for the sins of the people.

Cross References

Romans 15:17

I can therefore glory in Christ Jesus concerning the work for God in which I am engaged.

Romans 5:10

For if while we were hostile to God we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, it is still more certain that now that we are reconciled, we shall obtain salvation through Christ's life.

Ephesians 2:16

thus effecting peace, and to reconcile Jews and Gentiles in one body to God, by means of His cross–slaying by it their mutual enmity.

Colossians 1:21

And you, estranged as you once were and even hostile in your minds, amidst your evil deeds,

Hebrews 10:21

and since we have a great Priest who has authority over the house of God,

Hebrews 2:11

For both He who sanctifies and those whom He is sanctifying have all one Father; and for this reason He is not ashamed to speak of them as His brothers;

Hebrews 2:14

Since then the children referred to are all alike sharers in perishable human nature, He Himself also, in the same way, took on Him a share of it, in order that through death He might render powerless him who had authority over death, that is, the Devil,

Hebrews 2:16

For assuredly it is not to angels that He is continually reaching a helping hand, but it is to the descendants of Abraham.

Hebrews 3:1

Therefore, holy brethren, sharers with others in a heavenly invitation, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest whose followers we profess to be.

Hebrews 3:2

How faithful He was to Him who appointed Him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house!

Hebrews 3:5

Moreover, Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant in delivering the message given him to speak;

Hebrews 4:14

Inasmuch, then, as we have in Jesus, the Son of God, a great High Priest who has passed into Heaven itself, let us hold firmly to our profession of faith.

Hebrews 4:15

For we have not a High Priest who is unable to feel for us in our weaknesses, but one who was tempted in every respect just as we are tempted, and yet did not sin.

Hebrews 5:1

For every High Priest is chosen from among men, and is appointed to act on behalf of men in matters relating to God, in order to offer both gifts and sin-offerings,

Hebrews 5:10

For God Himself addresses Him as a High Priest for ever, belonging to the order of Melchizedek.

Hebrews 5:2

and must be one who is able to bear patiently with the ignorant and erring, because he himself also is beset with infirmity.

Hebrews 5:5

So Christ also did not claim for Himself the honour of being made High Priest, but was appointed to it by Him who said to Him, »My Son art Thou: I have to-day become Thy Father;«

Hebrews 6:20

where Jesus has entered as a forerunner on our behalf, having become, like Melchizedek, a High Priest for ever.

Hebrews 7:26

Moreover we needed just such a High Priest as this–holy, guileless, undefiled, far removed from sinful men and exalted above the heavens;

Hebrews 7:28

For the Law constitutes men High Priests –men with all their infirmity– but the utterance of the oath, which came later than the Law, constitutes High Priest a Son who has been made for ever perfect.

Hebrews 8:1

Now in connexion with what we have been saying the chief point is that we have a High Priest who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God's Majesty in the heavens,

Hebrews 8:3

Every High Priest, however, is appointed to offer both bloodless gifts and sacrifices. Therefore this High Priest also must have some offering to present.

Hebrews 9:11

But Christ appeared as a High Priest of the blessings that are soon to come by means of the greater and more perfect Tent of worship, a tent which has not been built with hands –that is to say does not belong to this material creation–