Hebrews 4:14 Cross References

Hebrews 4:14

14: That is why we have a great High Priest who has gone to heaven, Jesus the Son of God. Let us cling to him and never stop trusting him.

Jesus has already gone in there for us. He has become our eternal High Priest in the line of Melchizedek.

We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, on whom our faith depends from start to finish. He was willing to die a shameful death on the cross because of the joy he knew would be his afterward. Now he is seated in the place of highest honor beside God's throne in heaven.

For Christ has entered into heaven itself to appear now before God as our Advocate. He did not go into the earthly place of worship, for that was merely a copy of the real Temple in heaven.

Once for all time he took blood into that Most Holy Place, but not the blood of goats and calves. He took his own blood, and with it he secured our salvation forever.

Therefore he is able, once and forever, to save everyone who comes to God through him. He lives forever to plead with God on their behalf.
He is the kind of high priest we need because he is holy and blameless, unstained by sin. He has now been set apart from sinners, and he has been given the highest place of honor in heaven.

The same one who came down is the one who ascended higher than all the heavens, so that his rule might fill the entire universe.

But now in these final days, he has spoken to us through his Son. God promised everything to the Son as an inheritance, and through the Son he made the universe and everything in it.
The Son reflects God's own glory, and everything about him represents God exactly. He sustains the universe by the mighty power of his command. After he died to cleanse us from the stain of sin, he sat down in the place of honor at the right hand of the majestic God of heaven.

Without wavering, let us hold tightly to the hope we say we have, for God can be trusted to keep his promise.

Here is the main point: Our High Priest sat down in the place of highest honor in heaven, at God's right hand.

Therefore, it was necessary for Jesus to be in every respect like us, his brothers and sisters, so that he could be our merciful and faithful High Priest before God. He then could offer a sacrifice that would take away the sins of the people.
Since he himself has gone through suffering and temptation, he is able to help us when we are being tempted.
And so, dear brothers and sisters who belong to God and are bound for heaven, think about this Jesus whom we declare to be God's Messenger and High Priest.

But our High Priest offered himself to God as one sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then he sat down at the place of highest honor at God's right hand.

For he must remain in heaven until the time for the final restoration of all things, as God promised long ago through his prophets.

For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly as when we first believed, we will share in all that belongs to Christ.

So we must listen very carefully to the truth we have heard, or we may drift away from it.

They said, "Men of Galilee, why are you standing here staring at the sky? Jesus has been taken away from you into heaven. And someday, just as you saw him go, he will return!"

Who then will condemn us? Will Christ Jesus? No, for he is the one who died for us and was raised to life for us and is sitting at the place of highest honor next to God, pleading for us.

But to his Son he says, "Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever. Your royal power is expressed in righteousness.

Moses was certainly faithful in God's house, but only as a servant. His work was an illustration of the truths God would reveal later.
But Christ, the faithful Son, was in charge of the entire household. And we are God's household, if we keep up our courage and remain confident in our hope in Christ.

When the Lord Jesus had finished talking with them, he was taken up into heaven and sat down in the place of honor at God's right hand.

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