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Christ as Priest and Sacrifice
Jesus is both the great High Priest and the once-for-all sacrifice through which the New Covenant provides redemption. Unlike Levitical priests who repeatedly offered sacrifices, Christ offered Himself once and entered the true holy place. Hebrews interprets the Old-Covenant sacrificial system as preparatory and Christ's sacrifice as sufficient.
Key KJV Scriptures:
Leviticus 16; Hebrews 4:14-16; 7:23-28; 9:11-15,24-28; 10:1-18
Key KJV Scriptures: Full Text
71 indexed verses · Showing 41–71. Read each passage in its chapter context.
Hebrews 7:26 (KJV)
For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
Hebrews 7:27 (KJV)
Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
Hebrews 7:28 (KJV)
For 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.
Hebrews 9:11 (KJV)
But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
Hebrews 9:12 (KJV)
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Hebrews 9:13 (KJV)
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
Hebrews 9:14 (KJV)
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Hebrews 9:15 (KJV)
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Hebrews 9:24 (KJV)
For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
Hebrews 9:25 (KJV)
Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
Hebrews 9:26 (KJV)
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Hebrews 9:27 (KJV)
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Hebrews 9:28 (KJV)
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Hebrews 10:1 (KJV)
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Hebrews 10:2 (KJV)
For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
Hebrews 10:3 (KJV)
But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
Hebrews 10:4 (KJV)
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Hebrews 10:5 (KJV)
Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
Hebrews 10:6 (KJV)
In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
Hebrews 10:7 (KJV)
Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Hebrews 10:8 (KJV)
Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
Hebrews 10:9 (KJV)
Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
Hebrews 10:10 (KJV)
By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Hebrews 10:11 (KJV)
And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
Hebrews 10:12 (KJV)
But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
Hebrews 10:13 (KJV)
From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
Hebrews 10:14 (KJV)
For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
Hebrews 10:15 (KJV)
Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
Hebrews 10:16 (KJV)
This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
Hebrews 10:17 (KJV)
And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Hebrews 10:18 (KJV)
Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.