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Hebrews 5:3

And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

KJV

καὶ δι’ αὐτὴν ὀφείλει καθὼς περὶ τοῦ λαοῦ οὕτως καὶ περὶ ἑαυτοῦ προσφέρειν περὶ ἁμαρτιῶν.

Greek NT

et propterea debet, quemadmodum pro populo, ita etiam et pro semetipso offerre pro peccatis.

Vulgate

and by reason thereof is bound, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

ASV

And therefore he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
διά
dia
preposition · 633×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καθώς
kathos
adverb · 181×
λαός
laos
noun · 144×
οὕτω
outo
adverb · 208×
περί
peri
preposition · 335×
προσφέρω
prosphero
verb · 49×
ἁμαρτία
amartia
noun · 173×
ἑαυτοῦ
eautou
reflexive_pronoun · 316×
ὀφείλω
opheilo
verb · 35×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

3 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: δι᾽ αὐτὴν | WH/Treg/NIV: δι᾽ αὐτὴν | RP: διὰ ταύτην
  • δι᾽ αὐτὴν — SBLGNT
  • δι᾽ αὐτὴν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • διὰ ταύτην — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
notable
SBLGNT: αὑτοῦ | Holmes: αὑτοῦ | WH/Treg/RP: ἑαυτοῦ | NIV: αὐτοῦ
  • αὑτοῦ — SBLGNT
  • αὑτοῦ — SBLGNT
  • ἑαυτοῦ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
  • αὐτοῦ — Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: περὶ | WH/Treg/NIV: περὶ | RP: ὑπὲρ
  • περὶ — SBLGNT
  • περὶ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ὑπὲρ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§784On entering the People of God through faith and Baptism, one receives a share in this people's unique, priestly vocation: "Christ the Lord, high priest taken from among men, has made this new people 'a kingdom of priests to God, his Father.' the baptized, by regeneration and the anointing of the Holy Spirit, are consecrated to be a spiritual house and a holy priesthood."209
§1540Instituted to proclaim the Word of God and to restore communion with God by sacrifices and prayer,9 this priesthood nevertheless remains powerless to bring about salvation, needing to repeat its sacrifices ceaselessly and being unable to achieve a definitive sanctification, which only the sacrifice of Christ would accomplish.10
1. Beloved, our condition needs much endurance; and endurance is produced when doctrines are deeply rooted. For as no wind is able by its assaults to tear up the oak, which sends down its root into the lower recesses of the earth, and is firmly clenched there; so too the soul which is nailed by the fear of God none will be able to overturn. Since to be nailed is more than to be…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 15:3 — For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
  • Heb 7:27 — Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
  • Heb 7:27 — Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
  • Heb 9:7 — But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
  • Lev 4:3 — If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering.
  • Lev 4:3 — If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering.
  • Lev 9:7 — And Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and offer thy sin offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement for thyself, and for the people: and offer the offering of the people, and make
  • Lev 9:7 — And Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and offer thy sin offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement for thyself, and for the people: and offer the offering of the people, and make
  • Lev 9:15 — And he brought the people’s offering, and took the goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as the first.
  • Lev 16:6 — And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house.
  • Lev 16:15 — Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the m
  • Lev 16:15 — Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the m