Hebrews 4:14

Hebrews 4:14 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
• New International Version (NIV)Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

Context of Hebrews 4:14

12For the word of God [is] living and operative, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and penetrating to [the] division of soul and spirit, both of joints and marrow, and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of [the] heart. 13And there is not a creature unapparent before him; but all things [are] naked and laid bare to his eyes, with whom we have to do. Having therefore a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast the confession. 15For we have not a high priest not able to sympathise with our infirmities, but tempted in all things in like manner, sin apart. 16Let us approach therefore with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and find grace for seasonable help.

Hebrews 4:14 word by word

Ἔχοντες οὖν ἀρχιερέα μέγαν διεληλυθότα τοὺς οὐρανούς, Ἰησοῦν τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ θεοῦ, κρατῶμεν τῆς ὁμολογίας.Read the interlinear

• thereforeοὖνoun · therefore/thenG3767
• greatμέγαςmegas · greatG3173
• highἀρχιερεύςarchiereus · high-priestG749
• passedδιέρχομαιdierchomai · to pass throughG1330
• heavensοὐρανόςouranos · heavenG3772
• JesusἸησοῦςIēsous · JesusG2424
• Sonυἱόςuihos · sonG5207
• Godθεόςtheos · GodG2316
• holdκρατέωkrateō · to grasp/seizeG2902
• confessionὁμολογίαhomologia · confessionG3671

Cross-references for Hebrews 4:14

• Hebrews 2:17Wherefore it behoved him in all things to be made like to [his] brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things relating to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people;
• Hebrews 3:1Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of [the] heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus,
• Hebrews 3:5And Moses indeed [was] faithful in all his house, as a ministering servant, for a testimony of the things to be spoken after;
• Hebrews 1:3who being [the] effulgence of his glory and [the] expression of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made [by himself] the purification of sins, set himself down on the right hand of the greatness on high,
• Hebrews 6:20where Jesus is entered as forerunner for us, become for ever a high priest according to the order of Melchisedec.
• Hebrews 7:25Whence also he is able to save completely those who approach by him to God, always living to intercede for them.
• Hebrews 8:1Now a summary of the things of which we are speaking [is], We have such a one high priest who has sat down on [the] right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens;
• Hebrews 9:12nor by blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, has entered in once for all into the [holy of] holies, having found an eternal redemption.
• Hebrews 10:12But he, having offered one sacrifice for sins, sat down in perpetuity at [the] right hand of God,
• Hebrews 12:2looking stedfastly on Jesus the leader and completer of faith: who, in view of the joy lying before him, endured [the] cross, having despised [the] shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
• Mark 16:19The Lord therefore, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat at the right hand of God.
• Luke 24:51And it came to pass as he was blessing them, he was separated from them and was carried up into heaven.
• Acts 1:11who also said, Men of Galilee, why do ye stand looking into heaven? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven, shall thus come in the manner in which ye have beheld him going into heaven.
• Acts 3:21whom heaven indeed must receive till [the] times of [the] restoring of all things, of which God has spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets since time began.
• Romans 8:34who is he that condemns? [It is] Christ who has died, but rather has been [also] raised up; who is also at the right hand of God; who also intercedes for us.
• Hebrews 1:2at the end of these days has spoken to us in [the person of the] Son, whom he has established heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

Commentaries on Hebrews 4:14

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14Seeing then that we have a great high priest - It is contended, and very properly, that the particle , which we translate seeing, as if what followed was an immediate inference from what the apostle had been speaking, should be translated now; for the apostle, though he had before mentioned Christ as the High Priest of our profession, Hebrews 3:1, and as the High Priest who made reconciliation for the sins of the people, Hebrews 2:17, does not attempt to…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14Seeing then that we have a great high priest - The apostle here resumes the subject which had been slightly hinted at in Hebrews 2:17; Hebrews 3:1, and pursues it to the end of Luke 1:5 note; Matthew 26:3 note. The name “great high priest” would designate him who actually held the office, and was at the head of all the other priests; and the idea here is, not merely that the Lord Jesus was “a priest,” but that he was at the head of all: in the Christian…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-16Verses 11-16 Observe the end proposed: rest spiritual and eternal; the rest of grace here, and glory hereafter; in Christ on earth, with Christ in heaven. After due and diligent labour, sweet and satisfying rest shall follow; and labour now, will make that rest more pleasant when it comes. Let us labour, and quicken each other to be diligent in duty. The Holy Scriptures are the word of God. When God sets it home by his Spirit, it convinces powerfully…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14This verse sums up the message and challenge of Hebrews. Jesus, the Son of God, is our high priest and the reason to stay strong in the Christian faith. a great high priest: Israel’s high priest was the main leader in worship and the mediator between God and the people (see Exodus 31:10; Leviticus 4:3; 2 Kings 12:10; 2 Chronicles 26:20). who has passed through the heavens: Earthly high priests entered God’s presence in the Most Holy Place once a year on…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. Seeing then--Having, therefore; resuming He 2:17. great--as being "the Son of God, higher than the heavens" (He 7:26): the archetype and antitype of the legal high priest. passed into the heavens--rather, "passed through the heavens," namely, those which come between us and God, the aerial heaven, and that above the latter containing the heavenly bodies, the sun, moon, &c. These heavens were the veil which our High Priest passed through into the…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Hebrews 4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings