26 For a high priest such as this indeed is fitting for us, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and having become exalted above the heavens, 27 who does not need every day[a] like the former high priests to offer up sacrifices for his own sins and then for the sins of the people, because he did this once for all when he[b] offered up himself. 28 For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the statement of the oath, after the law, appoints a Son, who is made perfect forever[c].

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 7:27 Literally “have necessity every day”
  2. Hebrews 7:27 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal participle (“offered up”)
  3. Hebrews 7:28 Literally “for the age”

26 Such a high priest(A) truly meets our need—one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners,(B) exalted above the heavens.(C) 27 Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices(D) day after day, first for his own sins,(E) and then for the sins of the people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all(F) when he offered himself.(G) 28 For the law appoints as high priests men in all their weakness;(H) but the oath, which came after the law, appointed the Son,(I) who has been made perfect(J) forever.

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