26 For this is the kind of high priest we need: holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.(A) 27 He doesn’t need to offer sacrifices every day, as high priests do—first for their own sins, then for those of the people. He did this once for all time when he offered himself.(B) 28 For the law appoints as high priests men who are weak, but the promise of the oath, which came after the law, appoints a Son,(C) who has been perfected(D) forever.

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26 For a high priest such as this indeed is fitting for us, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and having become exalted above the heavens, 27 who does not need every day[a] like the former high priests to offer up sacrifices for his own sins and then for the sins of the people, because he did this once for all when he[b] offered up himself. 28 For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the statement of the oath, after the law, appoints a Son, who is made perfect forever[c].

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 7:27 Literally “have necessity every day”
  2. Hebrews 7:27 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal participle (“offered up”)
  3. Hebrews 7:28 Literally “for the age”