CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Hebrews 7:23 Context: Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered from continuing by death.</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/5001a.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 4800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 4800px)" href="/4801a.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1550px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1550px)" href="/1551a.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1250px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1250px)" href="/1251a.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 1050px), only screen and (max-device-width: 1050px)" href="/1051a.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 900px), only screen and (max-device-width: 900px)" href="/901a.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 800px), only screen and (max-device-width: 800px)" href="/801a.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-width: 575px), only screen and (max-device-width: 575px)" href="/501a.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link media="handheld, only screen and (max-height: 450px), only screen and (max-device-height: 450px)" href="/h451a.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/hebrews/7-23.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmc/hebrews/7-23.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="//biblehub.com/crossref/">Cross Refs</a> > Hebrews 7:23</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../hebrews/7-22.htm" title="Hebrews 7:22">◄</a> Hebrews 7:23 <a href="../hebrews/7-24.htm" title="Hebrews 7:24">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Context</div>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/7-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>The <i>former</i> priests, on the one hand, existed in greater numbers because they were prevented by death from continuing, <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/7-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>but Jesus, on the other hand, because He continues forever, holds His priesthood permanently. <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/7-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/7-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>For it was fitting for us to have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners and exalted above the heavens; <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/7-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the <i>sins</i> of the people, because this He did once for all when He offered up Himself. <span class="reftext"><a href="/hebrews/7-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>For the Law appoints men as high priests who are weak, but the word of the oath, which came after the Law, <i>appoints</i> a Son, made perfect forever. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/hebrews/7.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And they indeed have been made priests many in number, because that by death they are hindered from continuing:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/hebrews/7.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And the others indeed were made many priests, because by reason of death they were not suffered to continue: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/hebrews/7.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And they have been many priests, on account of being hindered from continuing by death;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/hebrews/7.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And they indeed have been made priests many in number, because that by death they are hindered from continuing:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/hebrews/7.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/hebrews/7.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />And they have been appointed priests many in number, because death prevents their continuance in office:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/hebrews/7.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered from continuing by death.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/hebrews/7.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> and those indeed are many who have become priests, because by death they are hindered from remaining;<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_2_1856/salvation_to_the_uttermost.htm">Salvation to the Uttermost</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Well, then it is salvation I desire to preach to you. We have, in our text, two or three things. In the first place, we are told who they are who will be saved, "them that come into God by Jesus Christ;" in the second place we are told the extent of the Saviour's ability to save, "He is able to save to the uttermost;" and in the third place, we have the reason given why he can save, "seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them." I. First, we are told THE PEOPLE WHO ARE TO BE SAVED. And the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_2_1856/salvation_to_the_uttermost.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 2: 1856</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_31_1885/the_man_christ_jesus.htm">The Man Christ Jesus</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Consider how great this man was" in the combination of his offices. He was duly appointed both priest and king: king of righteousness and peace, and at the same time priest of the Most High God. It may be said of him that he sat as a priest upon his throne. He exercised the double office to the great blessedness of those who were with him; for his one act towards Abraham would seem to be typical of his whole life; he blessed him in the name of the Most High God. "Consider how great this man was" <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_31_1885/the_man_christ_jesus.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 31: 1885</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_46_1900/priest_and_victim.htm">Priest and victim</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"He offered up himself."--Hebrews 7:27. I DO NOT KNOW when I have ever felt a more decided conflict of emotions in my own heart than I do just now. Happy is the man who has such a message as that in my text to deliver to his fellow-men; but burdened is the man who feels that the message is far too great for his lips, or, indeed, for any human tongue to convey. To be allowed to announce to men that our Lord Jesus Christ "offered up himself" on their behalf is, indeed, an errand which angels might <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_46_1900/priest_and_victim.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 46: 1900</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/the_ministry_of_intercession/twenty-fifth_day_for_more_conversions.htm">Twenty-Fifth Day for More Conversions</a><br></span><span class="snippet">WHAT TO PRAY.--For more Conversions "He is able to save completely, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession."--HEB. vii. 25. "We will give ourselves continually to prayer and the ministry of the word.... And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied exceedingly."--ACTS vi. 4, 7. Christ's power to save, and save completely, depends on His unceasing intercession. The apostles withdrawing themselves from other work to give themselves continually to prayer was followed <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/the_ministry_of_intercession/twenty-fifth_day_for_more_conversions.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Andrew Murray—</span><span class="citation2">The Ministry of Intercession</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kuyper/the_work_of_the_holy_spirit/xviii_guiltless_and_without_sin.htm">Guiltless and Without Sin. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"For such an High Priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens."--Heb. vii. 26. Throughout the ages the Church has confessed that Christ took upon Himself real human nature from the virgin Mary, not as it was before the fall, but such as it had become, by and after the fall. This is clearly stated in Heb. ii. 14, 17: "Forasmuch as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself took part of the same . . . . Wherefore in <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kuyper/the_work_of_the_holy_spirit/xviii_guiltless_and_without_sin.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Abraham Kuyper—</span><span class="citation2">The Work of the Holy Spirit</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/van_dyke/what_peace_means/iii_the_power_of_an.htm">The Power of an Endless Life</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. --Hebrews 7:16. The message and hope of immortality are nowhere more distinctly conveyed to our minds than in connection with that resurrection morn when Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene. The anniversary of that day will ever be the festival of the human soul. Even those who do not clearly understand or fully accept its meaning in history and religion,--even children and ignorant folk and doubters and <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/van_dyke/what_peace_means/iii_the_power_of_an.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Henry Van Dyke—</span><span class="citation2">What Peace Means</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/allen/autobiography_of_frank_g_allen_minister_of_the_gospel/xi_christ_our_high_priest.htm">Christ Our High Priest. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Now, if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it hath the people received the law), what further need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be reckoned after the order of Aaron? For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. For he of whom these things are said belongeth to another tribe, from which no man hath given attendance at the altar. For it is evident that our Lord hath sprung <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/allen/autobiography_of_frank_g_allen_minister_of_the_gospel/xi_christ_our_high_priest.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Frank G. Allen—</span><span class="citation2">Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bevan/hymns_of_ter_steegen_suso_and_others/the_great_high_priest.htm">The Great High Priest</a><br></span><span class="snippet">T. P. Heb. vii. 24, 25 Sweet to trace His toiling footsteps Here amidst the desert sands; Bear in memory all His sorrow, Thorn-clad head and pierced hands! Learn His love beside the manger, Learn it on the stormy wave, By the well, and in the garden-- Learn it by the Cross and grave. Yet not only in remembrance Do we watch that stream of love-- Still a mighty torrent flowing From the throne of God above. Still a treasure all uncounted-- Still a story half untold-- Unexhausted and unfathomed, Fresh <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bevan/hymns_of_ter_steegen_suso_and_others/the_great_high_priest.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Frances Bevan—</span><span class="citation2">Hymns of Ter Steegen, Suso, and Others</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the_works_of_john_bunyan_volumes_1-3/the_doctrine.htm">The Doctrine</a><br></span><span class="snippet">OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED; OR, A DISCOURSE TOUCHING THE LAW AND GRACE; THE NATURE OF THE ONE, AND THE NATURE OF THE OTHER; SHOWING WHAT THEY ARE, AS THEY ARE THE TWO COVENANTS; AND LIKEWISE, WHO THEY BE, AND WHAT THEIR CONDITIONS ARE, THAT BE UNDER EITHER OF THESE TWO COVENANTS: Wherein, for the better understanding of the reader, there are several questions answered touching the law and grace, very easy to be read, and as easy to be understood, by those that are the sons of wisdom, the children <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the_works_of_john_bunyan_volumes_1-3/the_doctrine.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Bunyan—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the_works_of_john_bunyan_volumes_1-3/christ_a_complete_saviour_.htm">Christ a Complete Saviour:</a><br></span><span class="snippet">OR, THE INTERCESSION OF CHRIST, AND WHO ARE PRIVILEGED IN IT. BY JOHN BUNYAN Advertisement by the Editor. However strange it may appear, it is a solemn fact, that the heart of man, unless prepared by a sense of the exceeding sinfulness of sin, rejects Christ as a complete Saviour. The pride of human nature will not suffer it to fall, as helpless and utterly undone, into the arms of Divine mercy. Man prefers a partial Saviour; one who had done so much, that, with the sinner's aid, the work might be <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the_works_of_john_bunyan_volumes_1-3/christ_a_complete_saviour_.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Bunyan—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/rhees/the_life_of_jesus_of_nazareth/v_the_early_years_of.htm">The Early Years of Jesus</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Matt. i. 1 to ii. 23; Luke i. 5 to ii. 52; iii. 23-38 58. It is surprising that within a century of the life of the apostles, Christian imagination could have so completely mistaken the real greatness of Jesus as to let its thirst for wonder fill his early years with scenes in which his conduct is as unlovely as it is shocking. That he who in manhood was "holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners" (Heb. vii. 26), could in youth, in a fit of ill-temper, strike a companion with death and then <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/rhees/the_life_of_jesus_of_nazareth/v_the_early_years_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rush Rhees—</span><span class="citation2">The Life of Jesus of Nazareth</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/hebrews/7-23.htm">Hebrews 7:23 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/hebrews/7-23.htm">Hebrews 7:23 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/hebrews/7-23.htm">Hebrews 7:23 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/hebrews/7-23.htm">Hebrews 7:23 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/hebrews/7-23.htm">Hebrews 7:23 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/hebrews/7-23.htm">Hebrews 7:23 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/hebrews/7-23.htm">Hebrews 7:23 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../hebrews/7-22.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Hebrews 7:22"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Hebrews 7:22" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../hebrews/7-24.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Hebrews 7:24"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Hebrews 7:24" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/hebrews/7-23.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>