Our High Priest is not one who cannot feel sympathy for our weaknesses. On the contrary, we have a High Priest who was tempted in every way that we are, but did not sin.

Let us have confidence, then, and approach God's throne, where there is grace. There we will receive mercy and find grace to help us just when we need it.

Since he himself is weak in many ways, he is able to be gentle with those who are ignorant and make mistakes.

In his life on earth Jesus made his prayers and requests with loud cries and tears to God, who could save him from death. Because he was humble and devoted, God heard him.

When he was made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all those who obey him,

Then the Spirit led Jesus into the desert to be tempted by the Devil.

Then the Devil came to him and said, "If you are God's Son, order these stones to turn into bread."

Then the Devil took Jesus to Jerusalem, the Holy City, set him on the highest point of the Temple,

Jesus answered, "But the scripture also says, 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.' "

"All this I will give you," the Devil said, "if you kneel down and worship me."

He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee. Grief and anguish came over him,

He went a little farther on, threw himself face downward on the ground, and prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, take this cup of suffering from me! Yet not what I want, but what you want."

I was with you in the Temple every day, and you did not try to arrest me. But this is your hour to act, when the power of darkness rules."

And so he is able, now and always, to save those who come to God through him, because he lives forever to plead with God for them.

Jesus, then, is the High Priest that meets our needs. He is holy; he has no fault or sin in him; he has been set apart from sinners and raised above the heavens.

What my Father has given me is greater than everything, and no one can snatch them away from the Father's care.

He will change our weak mortal bodies and make them like his own glorious body, using that power by which he is able to bring all things under his rule.

and it is for this reason that I suffer these things. But I am still full of confidence, because I know whom I have trusted, and I am sure that he is able to keep safe until that Day what he has entrusted to me.

To him who is able to keep you from falling and to bring you faultless and joyful before his glorious presence---

Every test that you have experienced is the kind that normally comes to people. But God keeps his promise, and he will not allow you to be tested beyond your power to remain firm; at the time you are put to the test, he will give you the strength to endure it, and so provide you with a way out.

But to keep me from being puffed up with pride because of the many wonderful things I saw, I was given a painful physical ailment, which acts as Satan's messenger to beat me and keep me from being proud.

But his answer was: "My grace is all you need, for my power is greatest when you are weak." I am most happy, then, to be proud of my weaknesses, in order to feel the protection of Christ's power over me.

And so the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials and how to keep the wicked under punishment for the Day of Judgment,

Because you have kept my command to endure, I will also keep you safe from the time of trouble which is coming upon the world to test all the people on earth.