Therefore, if perfection were through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), why is there yet a need [for] another priest to rise, according to the order of Melchizedek, and not to be called according to the order of Aaron?

Now this is the main point of the things being said: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

Therefore it [was] necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens to be continually purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves by better sacrifices than these.

not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters into the Holies every year with another's blood--

And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which are never able to take away sins.

from that time waiting till His enemies are placed as a footstool for His feet.

But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before,

and their sins and their lawless deeds I shall by no means remember any longer."

Therefore, brothers, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,

and [having] a High Priest over the house of God,

For it was fitting for Him, on account of whom [are] all things and through whom [are] all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the Author of their salvation through sufferings.

Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?"

Then He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but having been tempted in all [respects] in quite the same way as [we are], yet without sin.

by how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, will cleanse your conscience from dead works in order that we might serve the living God?

And you shall make a plate [of] pure gold, and you shall engrave on it [like] the engraving of a signet: Holiness to the Lord.

And I will give the wicked for His burial, and the rich for His death; for He practiced no iniquity, nor craft with His mouth.

And the angel answered and said to her, "The Holy Spirit shall come upon you, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy Baby which is to be born shall be called the Son of God.

Then he said to them the third [time], "Why, what evil did He do? I have found no guilt deserving death in Him. Therefore when I have flogged Him, I will release [Him]."

And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this Man did nothing wrong."

And when the centurion saw what had happened, he glorified God, saying, "Certainly this was a righteous Man!"

And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, because I always do the things pleasing to Him."

I will no longer speak many things with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me.

But you denied the Holy and Just One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

"For truly they were assembled against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel,

For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb blameless and spotless,

"Who committed no sin, nor was deceit found in His mouth";

And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not only concerning ours, but also concerning [those] of the whole world.

And you know that He appeared that He might take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.

"And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, 'These things says the Holy [One], the True [One], " He who has the key of David, He that opens and no man shuts, except He that opens, and no man shall open."

who being the effulgence of His glory and the exact expression of His substance, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Therefore having a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast the confession.

Now this is the main point of the things being said: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

looking unto Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured [the] cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

You have ascended on high, You have led captivity captive, You have received gifts among men, yea, for [they were] rebellious, that You might dwell among them.

For he knew that they had handed Him over because of envy.

So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

which He worked in Christ, having raised Him from the dead, and seated [Him] at His right hand in the heavenlies,

And He subjected all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church,

Therefore He says: "When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men."

He that descended, He is also the [One] who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.

Therefore God also has highly exalted Him, and has graciously given Him a name which is above every name,

and [that] every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

who having gone into heaven, is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers being subjected to Him.

And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as [if] dead. But He put His right hand on me, saying, "Do not fear; I am the First and the Last.

I am He who lives, and became dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Death and of Hades.