Hebrews 4:15
Good News Translation
Our High Priest is not one who cannot feel sympathy for our weaknesses. On the contrary, we have a High Priest who was tempted in every way that we are, but did not sin.

New Revised Standard Version
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus understands every weakness of ours, because he was tempted in every way that we are. But he did not sin!

New American Bible
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has similarly been tested in every way, yet without sin.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For we have not a high priest who cannot have compassion on our infirmities: but one tempted in all things like as we are, without sin.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For we have not a high priest who cannot have compassion on our infirmities: but one tempted in all things like as we are, without sin.

we have.

Hebrews 5:2 Who can have compassion on them that are ignorant and that err: because he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

Exodus 23:9 Thou shalt not molest a stranger, for you know the hearts of strangers: for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Isaiah 53:4,5 Surely he hath borne our infirmities and carried our sorrows: and we have thought him as it were a leper, and as one struck by God and afflicted. . . .

Hosea 11:8 How shall I deal with thee, O Ephraim, shall I protect thee, O Israel? how shall I make thee as Adama, shall I set thee as Seboim? my heart is turned within me, my repentance is stirred up.

Matthew 8:16,17 And when evening was come, they brought to him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word: and all that were sick he healed: . . .

Matthew 12:20 The bruised reed he shall not break: and smoking flax he shall not extinguish: till he send forth judgment unto victory.

Philippians 2:7,8 But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and in habit found as a man. . . .

tempted.

Hebrews 2:17,18 Wherefore, it behoved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest before God, that he might be a propitiation for the sins of the people. . . .

Luke 4:2 For the space of forty days, and was tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.

Luke 22:28 And you are they who have continued with me in my temptations:

yet.

Hebrews 7:26 For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

Isaiah 53:9 And he shall give the ungodly for his burial, and the rich for his death: because he hath done no iniquity, neither was there deceit in his mouth.

John 8:46 Which of you shall convince me of sin? If I say the truth to you, why do you not believe me:

2 Corinthians 5:21 Him, who knew no sin, he hath made sin for us: that we might be made the justice of God in him.

1 Peter 2:22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth.

1 John 3:5 And you know that he appeared to take away our sins: and in him there is no sin.

Context
Jesus the Great High Priest
14Having therefore a great high priest that hath passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God: let us hold fast our confession. 15For we have not a high priest who cannot have compassion on our infirmities: but one tempted in all things like as we are, without sin. 16Let us go therefore with confidence to the throne of grace: that we may obtain mercy and find grace in seasonable aid.…
Cross References
Matthew 4:1
Then Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil.

Luke 22:28
And you are they who have continued with me in my temptations:

Romans 8:3
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and of sin, hath condemned sin in the flesh.

2 Corinthians 5:21
Him, who knew no sin, he hath made sin for us: that we might be made the justice of God in him.

Hebrews 2:17
Wherefore, it behoved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest before God, that he might be a propitiation for the sins of the people.

Hebrews 2:18
For in that wherein he himself hath suffered and been tempted he is able to succour them also that are tempted.

Hebrews 5:2
Who can have compassion on them that are ignorant and that err: because he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

Hebrews 7:26
For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

Hebrews 9:28
So also Christ was offered once to exhaust the sins of many. The second time he shall appear without sin to them that expect him unto salvation.

Hebrews 4:14
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