Hebrews 5:2

A high priest can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward because he himself is beset by weakness. Shared human frailty enables compassion.

Cross-references · 18

• Heb 4:15For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.
• Heb 2:18Because He Himself suffered when He was tempted, He is able to help those who are being tempted.
• 2 Cor 12:9–10But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.
• Heb 7:28For the law appoints as high priests men who are weak; but the oath, which came after the law, appointed the Son, who has been made perfect forever.
• Heb 12:13Make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.
• Num 15:22–29Now if you stray unintentionally and do not obey all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses—
• 2 Cor 12:5I will boast about such a man, but I will not boast about myself, except in my weaknesses.
• Gal 4:13You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.
• Exod 32:21–24“What did this people do to you,” Moses asked Aaron, “that you have led them into so great a sin?”
• Num 12:1–9Then Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married, for he had taken a Cushite wife.
• 2 Cor 11:30If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.
• 1 Tim 1:13I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.
• Exod 32:2–5So Aaron told them, “Take off the gold earrings that are on your wives and sons and daughters, and bring them to me.”
• Luke 22:32But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith will not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”
• Exod 32:8How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”
• Num 20:10–12Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly in front of the rock, and Moses said to them, “Listen now, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?”
• Isa 30:11Get out of the way; turn off the road. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!”
• Judg 2:17Israel, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments; they did not do as their fathers had done.

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