Therefore, if perfection were through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need [was there] that another priest should rise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be called according to the order of Aaron?

Now [this is] the main point of the things we are saying: 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 should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another --

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

from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool.

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

[then He adds,] "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."

Therefore, brethren, 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, for whom [are] all things and by whom [are] all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect 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 was in all [points] tempted as [we are, yet] without sin.

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

" You shall also make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, [like] the engraving of a signet: HOLINESS TO THE LORD.

And they made His grave with the wicked -- But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor [was any] deceit in His mouth.

And the angel answered and said to her, "[The] Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.

Then he said to them the third time, "Why, what evil has He done? I have found no reason for death in Him. I will therefore chastise Him and let [Him] go."

"And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this Man has done nothing wrong."

So 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, for I always do those things that please Him."

"I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me.

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

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

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

but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

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

And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.

And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.

" And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, ' These things says He who is holy, He who is true, "He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens":

who being the brightness of [His] glory and the express image of His person, 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,

Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast [our] confession.

Now [this is] the main point of the things we are saying: 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 finisher 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, Even [from] the rebellious, That the LORD God might dwell [there.]

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

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

which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated [Him] at His right hand in the heavenly [places,]

And He put 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 who descended 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 given Him the name which is above every name,

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

who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him.

And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, "Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last.

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