and having a great priest over God’s house,
Parallel translations
- KJV And having an high priest over the house of God;
- BSB and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
- NKJV and having a High Priest over the house of God,
- NASB and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
- NLT And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God’s house,
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Quick answer
We have a great priest over God's household. Christ presides over God's people as our high priest.
Overview
The author reminds believers that Christ is not only the way to God but 'a great priest over God's house'. As the supreme high priest, he ministers on our behalf and rules over the household of faith. This priesthood guarantees our welcome and care in God's presence.
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- Heb 2:17Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.
- Heb 4:14–16Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.
- Heb 8:1Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
- Heb 6:20where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
- Heb 7:26For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
- Eph 2:19–22So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
- Heb 3:1Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus;
- Heb 3:3–6For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honor than the house.
- 1 Tim 3:15but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
- 2 Cor 6:16–17What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
- 1 Cor 3:9–17For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
- Matt 16:18I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
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