Hebrews 8:3
Good News Translation
Every high priest is appointed to present offerings and animal sacrifices to God, and so our High Priest must also have something to offer.

New Revised Standard Version
For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; hence it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer.

Contemporary English Version
Since all priests must offer gifts and sacrifices, Christ also needed to have something to offer.

New American Bible
Now every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; thus the necessity for this one also to have something to offer.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that he also should have some thing to offer.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that he also should have some thing to offer.

serve.

Hebrews 5:1 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:

Hebrews 7:27 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.

have.

Hebrews 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God?

Hebrews 10:9-12 Then said I: Behold, I come to do thy will, O God: He taketh away the first, that he may establish that which followeth. . . .

John 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven. [52] If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.

Ephesians 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness.

Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and might cleanse to himself a people acceptable, a pursuer of good works.

Context
Christ's Eternal Priesthood
2A minister of the holies and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord hath pitched, and not man. 3For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that he also should have some thing to offer. 4If then he were on earth, he would not be a priest: seeing that there would be others to offer gifts according to the law.…
Cross References
Romans 4:25
Who was delivered up for our sins and rose again for our justification.

Romans 5:6
For why did Christ, when as yet we were weak, according to the time, die for the ungodly?

Romans 5:8
But God commendeth his charity towards us: because when as yet we were sinners according to the time.

Galatians 2:20
And I live, now not I: but Christ liveth in me. And that I live now in the flesh: I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and delivered himself for me.

Ephesians 5:2
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness.

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 3:1
Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly vocation consider the apostle and high priest of our confession, Jesus:

Hebrews 5:1
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:

Hebrews 8:4
If then he were on earth, he would not be a priest: seeing that there would be others to offer gifts according to the law.

Hebrews 8:2
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