Bible Verses About The High Priest

And Paul said: I knew not, brethren, that he is the high priest. For it is written: Thou shalt not speak evil of the prince of thy people.

For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in the things that appertain to God, that he may offer up gifts and sacrifices for sins:

Who can have compassion on them that are ignorant and that err: because he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

And therefore he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

If then perfection was by the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need was there that another priest should rise according to the order of Melchisedech: and not be called according to the order of Aaron?

For the priesthood being translated, it is necessary that a translation also be made of the law,

For he of whom these things are spoken is of another tribe, of which no one attended on the altar.

For it is evident that our Lord sprung out of Juda: in which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priests.

And it is yet far more evident: if according to the similitude of Melchisedech there ariseth another priest,

Who is made, not according to the law of a law of a carnal commandment, but according to the power of an indissoluble life.

For he testifieth: Thou art a priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedech.

And inasmuch as it is not without an oath (for the others indeed were made priests without an oath:

But this with an oath, by him that said unto him: The Lord hath sworn and he will not repent: Thou art a priest for ever).

By so much is Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

Who needeth not daily (as the other priests) to offer sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, in offering himself.

For the law maketh men priests, who have infirmity: but the word of the oath (which was since the law) the Son who is perfected for evermore.