Hebrews 1:8

1:8 but of ¹  the Son he says, ² 

“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, ³ 

and a righteous scepter ⁴  is the scepter of your kingdom.

Hebrews 2:3

2:3 how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first communicated through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him,

Hebrews 3:3

3:3 For he has come to deserve greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house deserves greater honor than the house itself!

Hebrews 7:3

7:3 Without father, without mother, without genealogy, he has neither beginning of days nor end of life but is like the son of God, and he remains a priest for all time.

Hebrews 7:21

7:21 but Jesus ⁵  did so ⁶  with a sworn affirmation by the one who said to him, “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever’” ⁷  –

Hebrews 8:1

The High Priest of a Better Covenant

8:1 Now the main point of what we are saying is this: ⁸  We have such a high priest, one who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, ⁹ 

Hebrews 9:12

9:12 and he entered once for all into the most holy place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured ¹⁰  eternal redemption.

Hebrews 9:24

9:24 For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands – the representation ¹¹  of the true sanctuary ¹²  – but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God’s presence for us.

Hebrews 10:7

10:7 “Then I said, ‘Here I am: ¹³  I have come – it is written of me in the scroll of the book – to do your will, O God.’” ¹⁴ 

Hebrews 10:9

10:9 then he says, “Here I am: I have come to do your will.” ¹⁵  He does away with ¹⁶  the first to establish the second.

Hebrews 11:23

11:23 By faith, when Moses was born, his parents hid him ¹⁷  for three months, because they saw the child was beautiful and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.

Hebrews 11:28

11:28 By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, ¹⁸  so that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.

Hebrews 13:7

13:7 Remember your leaders, who spoke God’s message to you; reflect on the outcome of their lives and imitate their faith.

Hebrews 13:11

13:11 For the bodies of those animals whose blood the high priest brings ¹⁹  into the sanctuary as an offering for sin are burned outside the camp.

[1:8]  ¹ tn Or “to.”

[1:8]  ² tn The verb “he says” (λέγει, legei) is implied from the λέγει of v. 7.

[1:8]  ³ tn Or possibly, “Your throne is God forever and ever.” This translation is quite doubtful, however, since (1) in the context the Son is being contrasted to the angels and is presented as far better than they. The imagery of God being the Son’s throne would seem to be of God being his authority. If so, in what sense could this not be said of the angels? In what sense is the Son thus contrasted with the angels? (2) The μέν…δέ (men…de) construction that connects v. 7 with v. 8 clearly lays out this contrast: “On the one hand, he says of the angels…on the other hand, he says of the Son.” Thus, although it is grammatically possible that θεός (qeos) in v. 8 should be taken as a predicate nominative, the context and the correlative conjunctions are decidedly against it. Hebrews 1:8 is thus a strong affirmation of the deity of Christ.

[1:8]  ⁴ tn Grk “the righteous scepter,” but used generically.

[7:21]  ⁵ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:21]  ⁶ tn The words “did so” are not in the Greek text, but are implied.

[7:21]  ⁷ sn A quotation from Ps 110:4 (see Heb 5:6, 6:20, and 7:17).

[8:1]  ⁹ tn Grk “the main point of the things being said.”

[8:1]  ¹⁰ sn An allusion to Ps 110:1; see Heb 1:3, 13.

[9:12]  ¹³ tn This verb occurs in the Greek middle voice, which here intensifies the role of the subject, Christ, in accomplishing the action: “he alone secured”; “he and no other secured.”

[9:24]  ¹⁷ tn Or “prefiguration.”

[9:24]  ¹⁸ tn The word “sanctuary” is not in the Greek text at this point, but has been supplied for clarity.

[10:7]  ²¹ tn Grk “behold,” but this construction often means “here is/there is” (cf. BDAG 468 s.v. ἰδού 2).

[10:7]  ²² sn A quotation from Ps 40:6-8 (LXX). The phrase a body you prepared for me (in v. 5) is apparently an interpretive expansion of the HT reading “ears you have dug out for me.”

[10:9]  ²⁵ tc The majority of mss, especially the later ones (א² 0278^vid 1739 Ï lat), have ὁ θεός (Jo qeo", “God”) at this point, while most of the earliest and best witnesses lack such an explicit addressee (so Ì⁴⁶ א* A C D K P Ψ 33 1175 1881 2464 al). The longer reading is a palpable corruption, apparently motivated in part by the wording of Ps 40:8 (39:9 LXX) and by the word order of this same verse as quoted in Heb 10:7.

[10:9]  ²⁶ tn Or “abolishes.”

[11:23]  ²⁹ tn Grk “Moses, when he was born, was hidden by his parents.”

[11:28]  ³³ tn Grk “the pouring out of the blood.”

[13:11]  ³⁷ tn Grk “whose blood is brought by the high priest.”