3For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.


In Context

1 Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

2 a servant of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.

4 For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;

5 who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, |See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.|

Hebrews 8:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:3For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore [it is] of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:3Every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, and so it was necessary for this one also to have something to offer.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:3For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that he also should have some thing to offer.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:3For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that this high priest also have somewhat to offer.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:3For every high priest is constituted for the offering both of gifts and sacrifices; whence it is needful that this one also should have something which he may offer.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:3For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that this high priest also have somewhat to offer.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:3For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man should have somewhat also to offer.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:3for every chief priest to offer both gifts and sacrifices is appointed, whence it is necessary for this one to have also something that he may offer;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:3For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: why it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.