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Want to know what the Bible says about Christ, The High Priest? Here are 35 Bible verses about Christ, The High Priest from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Hebrews 3:1 NIV
Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge as our apostle and high priest.
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Hebrews 5:4-5 NIV
4 And no one takes this honor on himself, but he receives it when called by God, just as Aaron was.
5 In the same way, Christ did not take on himself the glory of becoming a high priest. But God said to him,
“You are my Son;
    today I have become your Father.”
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Psalm 110:4 NIV
The Lord has sworn
    and will not change his mind:
“You are a priest forever,
    in the order of Melchizedek.
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Hebrews 5:6 NIV
And he says in another place,
“You are a priest forever,
    in the order of Melchizedek.
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Hebrews 6:20 NIV
where our forerunner, Jesus, has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.
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Hebrews 7:15 NIV
And what we have said is even more clear if another priest like Melchizedek appears,
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Hebrews 7:17 NIV
For it is declared:
“You are a priest forever,
    in the order of Melchizedek.”
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Hebrews 7:11 NIV
If perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood—and indeed the law given to the people established that priesthood—why was there still need for another priest to come, one in the order of Melchizedek, not in the order of Aaron?
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Hebrews 7:16 NIV
one who has become a priest not on the basis of a regulation as to his ancestry but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life.
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Hebrews 8:1-2 NIV
8 Now the main point of what we are saying is this: We do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, 2 and who serves in the sanctuary, the true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by a mere human being.
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Hebrews 8:6 NIV
But in fact the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, since the new covenant is established on better promises.
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Hebrews 7:20-21 NIV
20 And it was not without an oath! Others became priests without any oath, 21 but he became a priest with an oath when God said to him:
“The Lord has sworn
    and will not change his mind:
    ‘You are a priest forever.’”
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Hebrews 7:23 NIV
Now there have been many of those priests, since death prevented them from continuing in office;
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Hebrews 7:28 NIV
For the law appoints as high priests men in all their weakness; but the oath, which came after the law, appointed the Son, who has been made perfect forever.
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Hebrews 7:26 NIV
Such a high priest truly meets our need—one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens.
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Hebrews 3:2 NIV
He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.
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Hebrews 7:27 NIV
Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered himself.
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Hebrews 9:14 NIV
How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!
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Hebrews 9:26 NIV
Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself.
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Hebrews 9:13-14 NIV
13 The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. 14 How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!
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