Hebrews 8:1 Cross References

Hebrews 8:1

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

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.

Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits at God's right hand in the place of honor and power.

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.
He does not need to offer sacrifices every day like the other high priests. They did this for their own sins first and then for the sins of the people. But Jesus did this once for all when he sacrificed himself on the cross.
Those who were high priests under the law of Moses were limited by human weakness. But after the law was given, God appointed his Son with an oath, and his Son has been made perfect forever.

I will invite everyone who is victorious to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat with my Father on his throne.

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.

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.

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.

Your victory brings him great honor, and you have clothed him with splendor and majesty.

Yours, O LORD, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty. Everything in the heavens and on earth is yours, O LORD, and this is your kingdom. We adore you as the one who is over all things.

Put on your sword, O mighty warrior! You are so glorious, so majestic!
In your majesty, ride out to victory, defending truth, humility, and justice. Go forth to perform awe-inspiring deeds!

Golden splendor comes from the mountain of God. He is clothed in dazzling splendor.

They will tell about your mighty deeds and about the majesty and glory of your reign.

I am in chains now for preaching this message as God's ambassador. But pray that I will keep on speaking boldly for him, as I should.

And God never said to an angel, as he did to his Son, "Sit in honor at my right hand until I humble your enemies, making them a footstool under your feet."

The LORD said to my Lord, "Sit in honor at my right hand until I humble your enemies, making them a footstool under your feet."

And he will stand to lead his flock with the LORD's strength, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. Then his people will live there undisturbed, for he will be highly honored all around the world.

Praise the LORD, I tell myself; O LORD my God, how great you are! You are robed with honor and with majesty;

But all who are left will shout and sing for joy. Those in the west will praise the LORD's majesty.

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