Hebrews 7:25-8:6
Jesus is always able to save those who approach God through
him,
since he lives
forever to make intercession for them.
It was fitting that we should have such a high priest:
holy, innocent,
undefiled, separated from sinners,
higher than the
heavens.
He has no need, as did the high priests,
to offer sacrifice
day after day,
first for his own
sins and then for those of the people;
he did that once
for all when he offered himself.
For the law appoints men subject to weakness to be high
priests,
but the word of the
oath, which was taken after the law,
appoints a son, who
has been made perfect forever.
The main point of what has been said is this:
we have such a high
priest,
who has taken his
seat at the right hand of the throne
of the Majesty in
heaven, a minister of the sanctuary
and of the true
tabernacle that the Lord, not man, set up.
Now every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and
sacrifices;
thus the necessity
for this one also to have something to offer.
If then he were on earth, he would not be a priest,
since there are
those who offer gifts according to the law.
They worship in a copy and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary,
as Moses was warned
when he was about to erect the tabernacle.
For God says, “See that you make everything
according to the
pattern shown you on the mountain.”
Now he has obtained so much more excellent a ministry
as he is mediator
of a better covenant,
enacted on better
promises.
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