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 don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
• Heb 2:18For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.
• 2 Cor 12:9–10He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
• Heb 7:28For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.
• Heb 12:13and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
• Num 15:22–29“‘When you err, and don’t observe all these commandments, which Yahweh has spoken to Moses,
• 2 Cor 12:5On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.
• Gal 4:13but you know that because of weakness of the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.
• Exod 32:21–24Moses said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?”
• Num 12:1–9Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.
• 2 Cor 11:30If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
• 1 Tim 1:13although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
• Exod 32:2–5Aaron said to them, “Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me.”
• Luke 22:32but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”
• Exod 32:8They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”
• Num 20:10–12Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?”
• Isa 30:11Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”
• Judg 2:17Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they prostituted themselves to other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying Yahweh’s commandments. They didn’t do so.

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