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 have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
• Heb 2:18For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
• 2 Cor 12:9–10And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
• Heb 7:28For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
• Heb 12:13And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
• Num 15:22–29And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses,
• 2 Cor 12:5Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.
• Gal 4:13Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
• Exod 32:21–24And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?
• Num 12:1–9And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
• 2 Cor 11:30If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
• 1 Tim 1:13Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
• Exod 32:2–5And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
• Luke 22:32But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
• Exod 32:8They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
• Num 20:10–12And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?
• Isa 30:11Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
• Judg 2:17And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.

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