13 Bible Verses About Our High Priest

For the high priest we have is not one who cannot share the feeling of our weaknesses; he has been put to the test in every way, as we are, but without sinning.

So let us, with confidence, approach the throne of grace, to receive mercy and to find grace that brings help just when we need it.

This is the kind of high priest that suits our need: holy, innocent, unstained, separate from sinners, and raised above the heavens.

But Christ came as high priest of the good things that have now come. Through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, one not made by hands and not belonging to this creation, and by means not of the blood of goats and calves but of his own blood, he entered the sanctuary once for all and obtained an eternal redemption.

That is why it was necessary for him to become like his brothers and sisters in every way, so that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in all that has to do with God, making atonement for the sins of the people.

In the same way Christ did not give himself the glory of becoming high priest. That glory came from the one who said to him, “You are my Son; today I have fathered you.” As he also says in another place, “You are a priest forever, of the order of Melchizedek.”

For this reason he is able to save completely those who approach God through him, since he is always alive to plead on their behalf.

Here is the heart of what we are saying. Our high priest is one who has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,

And we have a great priest who is over the house of God.

So then, holy brothers and sisters, partners in a heavenly calling, turn your minds to Jesus, the apostle and high priest of the confession we make.

There Jesus entered ahead of us and for our sake, as a forerunner, having become a high priest forever, of the order of Melchizedek.

But he remains forever, and so the priesthood he holds will never pass to another.