Hebrews 7:26
7:26 For it is indeed fitting for us to have such a high priest: holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
Hebrews 8:1
The High Priest of a Better Covenant
8:1 Now the main point of what we are saying is this: 1 We have such a high priest, one who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, 2
Hebrews 9:23-24
9:23 So it was necessary for the sketches
3 of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices,
4 but the heavenly things themselves required
5 better sacrifices than these.
9:24 For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands – the representation
6 of the true sanctuary
7 – but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God’s presence for us.
Hebrews 12:26
12:26 Then his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “
I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven too.”
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1 tn Grk “the main point of the things being said.”
2 sn An allusion to Ps 110:1; see Heb 1:3, 13.
1 tn Or “prototypes,” “outlines,” referring to the earthly sanctuary. See Heb 8:5 above for the prior use of this term.
2 tn Grk “with these”; in the translation the referent (sacrifices) has been specified for clarity.
3 tn Grk “the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.”
1 tn Or “prefiguration.”
2 tn The word “sanctuary” is not in the Greek text at this point, but has been supplied for clarity.
1 sn A quotation from Hag 2:6.