Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version 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. New Living Translation So then, since we have a great High Priest who has entered heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we believe. English Standard Version 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. Berean Standard Bible Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we profess. Berean Literal Bible Therefore having a great high priest having passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, we should hold firmly to our confession. King James Bible 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 King James Version 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. New American Standard Bible Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let’s hold firmly to our confession. NASB 1995 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. NASB 1977 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. Legacy Standard Bible Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us take hold of our confession. Amplified Bible Inasmuch then as we [believers] have a great High Priest who has [already ascended and] passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession [of faith and cling tenaciously to our absolute trust in Him as Savior]. Christian Standard Bible Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens—Jesus the Son of God—let us hold fast to our confession. Holman Christian Standard Bible Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens—Jesus the Son of God—let us hold fast to the confession. American Standard Version Having then a great high priest, who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Because we have therefore a great High Priest, Yeshua The Messiah, The Son of God, who has ascended to Heaven, let us hold fast to his confession. Contemporary English Version We have a great high priest, who has gone into heaven, and he is Jesus the Son of God. This is why we must hold on to what we have said about him. Douay-Rheims Bible Having therefore a great high priest that hath passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God: let us hold fast our confession. English Revised Version Having then a great high priest, who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. GOD'S WORD® Translation We need to hold on to our declaration of faith: We have a superior chief priest who has gone through the heavens. That person is Jesus, the Son of God. Good News Translation Let us, then, hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we have a great High Priest who has gone into the very presence of God--Jesus, the Son of God. International Standard Version Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone to heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us live our lives consistent with our confession of faith. Literal Standard Version Having, then, a great Chief Priest having passed through the heavens—Jesus the Son of God—may we hold fast the profession, Majority Standard Bible Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we profess. New American Bible Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession. NET Bible Therefore since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession. New Revised Standard Version Since, then, we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession. New Heart English Bible Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession. Webster's Bible Translation Seeing then that we have a great High Priest, that hath passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. Weymouth New Testament Inasmuch, then, as we have in Jesus, the Son of God, a great High Priest who has passed into Heaven itself, let us hold firmly to our profession of faith. World English Bible Having then a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let’s hold tightly to our confession. Young's Literal Translation Having, then, a great chief priest passed through the heavens -- Jesus the Son of God -- may we hold fast the profession, Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Jesus the Great High Priest13Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. 14Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we profess. 15For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.… Cross References Matthew 4:3 The tempter came to Him and said, "If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread." 2 Corinthians 9:13 Because of the proof this ministry provides, the saints will glorify God for your obedient confession of the gospel of Christ, and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all the others. 2 Corinthians 12:2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of it I do not know, but God knows. Ephesians 4:10 He who descended is the very One who ascended above all the heavens, in order to fill all things. Hebrews 1:2 But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe. Hebrews 2:17 For this reason He had to be made like His brothers in every way, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, in order to make atonement for the sins of the people. Hebrews 3:1 Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess. Treasury of Scripture 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. a great. Hebrews 2:17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. Hebrews 3:1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; Hebrews 3:5,6 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; … that is. Hebrews 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; Hebrews 6:20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. Hebrews 7:25,26 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them… Jesus. Hebrews 1:2,8 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; … Mark 1:1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; let. Hebrews 2:1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. Hebrews 3:6,14 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end… Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) Jump to Previous Chief Confession Faith Fast Firmly Great Heaven Heavens High Hold Inasmuch Itself Jesus Passed Priest Profession Strong Tightly WayJump to Next Chief Confession Faith Fast Firmly Great Heaven Heavens High Hold Inasmuch Itself Jesus Passed Priest Profession Strong Tightly WayHebrews 4 1. The Sabbath-Rest for Christians is attained by faith.12. The power of God's word. 14. By our high priest Jesus, the Son of God, 16. we may and must go boldly to the throne of grace. (14) All the chief points of the earlier chapters are brought together in this verse and the next:--the High Priest (Hebrews 2:17; Hebrews 3:1); His exaltation (Hebrews 1:3-4; Hebrews 1:13; Hebrews 2:9); His divine Sonship (Hebrews 1; Hebrews 3:6); His compassion towards the brethren whose lot He came to share (Hebrews 2:11-18). . . . Verse 14. - To the interposed minatory warning of the three preceding verses now succeeds encouragement, based on the view, which has been now a second time led up to, of Christ being our great High Priest, who can both sympathize and succor. The passage answers closely in thought to the conclusion of Hebrews 2, and might naturally have followed there; but that, before taking up the subject of Christ's priesthood, the writer had another line of thought to pursue, leading up (as has been explained) to the same conclusion. The οϋν at the beginning of ver. 14 either connects κρατῶμεν ("let us hold fast") with the verses immediately preceding in the sense, "The Word of God being so searching and resistless, let us therefore hold fast," etc., - in which ease the participial clause ἔχοντες, etc., is a confirmation of this exhortation (so Delitzsch); or is connected logically with the participial clause as a resumption of the whole preceding argument. Certainly the idea of the participial clause is the prominent one in the writer's mind, what follows being an expansion of it. And the position of οϋν suggests this connection. It is to be observed that, after the manner of the Epistle, this concluding exhortation serves also as a transition to the subject of the following chapters, and anticipates in some degree what is to be set forth, though all the expressions used have some ground in what has gone before. Having then a great High Priest who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. The rendering of διεληλυθότα τοὺς οὐρανοὺς in the A.V. ("is passed into the heavens") is evidently wrong. The idea is that Christ has passed through the intermediate heavens to the immediate presence of God - to the sphere of the eternal σαββατισμὸς. In his use of the plural, τοὺς οὐρανοὺς, the writer may have had in his mind the Jewish view of an ascending series of created heavens. Clemens Alexandrinus, e.g. speaks of seven: Απτὰ οὐρανοὺς οὕς τινὲς ἀρίθμουσι κατ ἐπανάβασιν. Cf. also "the heaven and the heaven of heavens" (Deuteronomy 10:14; 2 Chronicles 6:18; Nehemiah 9:6), and "who hast set thy glory above the heavens" (Psalm 8:1), also "the third heaven," into which St. Paul was rapt (2 Corinthians 12:2). Cf. also Ephesians 4:10, Ὁ ἀναβὰς ὑπεράνω πάντων τῶν οὐρανῶν ἵνα πληρώσῃ τὰ πάντα. The conception of the phrase is that, whatever spheres of created heavens intervene between our earth and the eternal uncreated, beyond them to it Christ has gone, - into "heaven itself (αὐτὸν τὸν οὐρανὸν);" "before the face of God" (Hebrews 9:24). From this expression, together with Ephesians 4:10 (above quoted), is rightly deduced the doctrine of Christ s ubiquity even in his human nature. For, carrying that nature with him and still retaining it, he is spoken of as having passed to the region which admits no idea of limitation, and so as to "fill all things." The obvious bearing of this doctrine on that of the presence in the Eucharist may be noted in passing. (It is to be observed that "the heavens" in the plural is used (Hebrews 8:1) of the seat of the Divine majesty itself to which Christ has gone. It is the word διεληλυθότα that determines the meaning here.) The designation, "Jesus the Son of God," draws attention first to the man Jesus who was known by that name in the flesh, and secondly to the "more excellent name," above expatiated on, in virtue of which he "hath passed through the heavens." The conclusion follows that it is the human Jesus, with his humanity, who, being also the Son of God, has so "passed through." There may possibly (as some think) be an intention of contrasting him with Joshua (Ιησοῦς, ver. 8), who won the entrance into the typical rest. But it is not necessary to suppose this; vers. 8 and 14 are at too great a distance from each other to suggest a connection of thought between them; and besides Ἰησοῦν occurred similarly at the end of Hebrews 3:1, before any mention of Joshua. The epithet μέγαν after ἀρχιερέα distinguishes Christ from all other high priests (cf. Hebrews 13:20, Τὸν ποιμένα τῶν προβάτων τὸν μέγαν). The high priest of the Law passed through the veil to the earthly symbol of the eternal glory; the "great High Priest" has passed through the heavens to the eternal glory itself. As to ὁμολογίας, cf. on Hebrews 3:1. In consideration of having such a High Priest, who, as is expressed in what follows, can both sympathize and succor, the readers are exhorted to "hold fast," not only their inward faith, but their "confession" of it before men. A besetting danger of the Hebrew Christians was that of shrinking from a full and open confession under the influence of gainsaying or persecution. Parallel Commentaries ... Greek Therefore,οὖν (oun) Conjunction Strong's 3767: Therefore, then. Apparently a primary word; certainly, or accordingly. since we have Ἔχοντες (Echontes) Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 2192: To have, hold, possess. Including an alternate form scheo skheh'-o; a primary verb; to hold. [such] a great μέγαν (megan) Adjective - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 3173: Large, great, in the widest sense. high priest ἀρχιερέα (archierea) Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 749: High priest, chief priest. From arche and hiereus; the high-priest; by extension a chief priest. who has passed through διεληλυθότα (dielēlythota) Verb - Perfect Participle Active - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 1330: To pass through, spread (as a report). From dia and erchomai; to traverse. the τοὺς (tous) Article - Accusative Masculine Plural Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. heavens, οὐρανούς (ouranous) Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural Strong's 3772: Perhaps from the same as oros; the sky; by extension, heaven; by implication, happiness, power, eternity; specially, the Gospel. Jesus Ἰησοῦν (Iēsoun) Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites. the τὸν (ton) Article - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. Son Υἱὸν (Huion) Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 5207: A son, descendent. Apparently a primary word; a 'son', used very widely of immediate, remote or figuratively, kinship. of God, Θεοῦ (Theou) Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very. let us hold firmly to κρατῶμεν (kratōmen) Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 1st Person Plural Strong's 2902: From kratos; to use strength, i.e. Seize or retain. what τῆς (tēs) Article - Genitive Feminine Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. we profess. ὁμολογίας (homologias) Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular Strong's 3671: A profession, confession. From the same as homologeo; acknowledgment. Links Hebrews 4:14 NIVHebrews 4:14 NLT Hebrews 4:14 ESV Hebrews 4:14 NASB Hebrews 4:14 KJV Hebrews 4:14 BibleApps.com Hebrews 4:14 Biblia Paralela Hebrews 4:14 Chinese Bible Hebrews 4:14 French Bible Hebrews 4:14 Catholic Bible NT Letters: Hebrews 4:14 Having then a great high priest who (Heb. He. Hb) |
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