The Letter to the Hebrews
What does this letter tell us about Christ?
This is an overview focusing on the Centrality of Christ.
The Bible translation used is the New King James Version.
Chapter 1
Verse 2: Christ is God's Son. God speaks to us by His Son. God has appointed Christ the heir of all things. God made the worlds (ages) through Christ.
Verse 3: Christ is the the brightness of God's glory. Christ is the express image of the person of God. Christ upholds all things by the word of His power. Christ has by Himself purged our sins and sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Verse 4: Christ has become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
Verses 5-6, 8-13: God says to and of His Son,
You are My Son, today I have begotten You.
I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son.
Let all the angels of God worship Him.
Your throne, O God, is forever and ever.
A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.
You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness.
Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness more than Your companions.
You LORD, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth,
And the heavens are the work of Your hands;
They will perish, but You remain;
And they will all grow old like a garment;
Like a cloak You will fold them up,
And they will be changed.
But You are the same,
And Your years will not fail.
Sit at My right hand,
Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.
Chapter 2
Verse 3: The Lord Christ spoke of our great salvation through His preaching and teaching.
Verse 9: Jesus was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone.
Verse 10: God made Christ, the Captain of our salvation, perfect through sufferings.
Verse 11: Christ who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren.
Verses 12-13: Christ says to God:
I will declare Your name to My brethren;
In the midst of the assembly I will sing praise to You.
I will put My trust in You.
Here am I and the children You have given Me.
Verses 14-15: Christ became flesh and blood, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
Verse 16: Christ gives aid to the seed of Abraham.
Verse 17: In all things Christ had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
Verse 18: For in that Christ has suffered, being tempted, He is able to aid those who are tempted.
Chapter 3
Verse 1: Christ Jesus is the Apostle and High Priest of our confession.
Verse 2: Christ Jesus was faithful to God.
Verse 3: Christ Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses.
Verse 6: Christ Jesus is faithful as a Son over His own House (the Church).
Chapter 4
Verse 14: Jesus the Son of God as our Great High Priest has passed through the heavens. He can sympathize with our weaknesses because He was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.
Chapter 5
Verse 5: Christ did not glorify Himself to become the Great High Priest. He is God's Son, who He has begotten.
Verse 6: Christ is a Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
Verse 7: Christ, in the days of His flesh, offered up prayers and supplications with cries and tears to God who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear.
Verse 8: Even though Christ was God's Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.
Verse 9: Christ having been perfected, became the Author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him.
Verse 10: Christ was called by God as High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
Chapter 6
Verse 20: Jesus the Forrunner has entered the Presence behind the veil for us having become the High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
Chapter 7
Verse 14: Our Lord Christ arose from Judah.
Verse 21: Christ with an oath by God became the High Priest. This is the oath God spoke to His Son:
The LORD has sworn and will not relent,
You are a Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
Verse 22: Jesus has become a surety of a better Covenant.
Verse 24: Because Christ continues forever, He has an unchangeable Priesthood.
Verse 25: Christ is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always makes intercession for them.
Verse 26: Christ as the High Priest is fitting for us. He is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens.
Verse 27: Christ does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people's, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.
Verse 28: The word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son, Christ, who has been perfected forever.
Chapter 8
Verse 1: We have such a High Priest, Christ, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens.
Verse 2: Christ is the Minister of the Sanctuary and of the true Tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.
Verse 6: But now Christ has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also the Mediator of a better Covenant, which was established on better promises.
Chapter 9
Verse 11: Christ came as the High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect Tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation.
Verse 12: Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood Christ entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.
Verse 14: Christ through the eternal Spirit offered Himself and His blood without spot to God, to cleanse our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Verse 15: Christ is the Mediator of the New Covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgression under the first Covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
Verse 24: Christ has not entered the Holy Places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into Heaven itself, now to appear in the Presence of God for us.
Verse 25: Christ does not offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with the blood of animals.
Verse 26: Christ then, if He was equal to the animal sacrifices, would have had to to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
Verse 28: Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Christ He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.
Chapter 10
Verses 5-7: When Christ came into the world, He said to God,
Sacrifice and offering You did not desire,
But a body You have prepared for Me.
In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure.
Behold, I have come –
In the volume of the Book it is written of Me –
To do Your will, O God.
Verse 9: In Christ coming to do God's will He has taken away the first Covenant that He may establish the second Covenant.
Verse 10: By God's will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus once for all.
Verses 12-13: This Man, Christ, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool.
Verse 14: For by one offering Christ has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
Verses 19-22: As brethren in Christ, we can with boldness enter the Holiest by the blood of Christ, by the new and living Way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, and having Him as our Great High Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Verse 37: For yet a little while, and Christ who is coming will come and will not tarry.
Chapter 12
Verse 2: Jesus is the Author and Finisher of our faith. He saw the joy that was set before Him and endured the cross, despised the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Verse 3: Christ endured such hostility from sinners against Himself.
Verse 24: Jesus is the Mediator of the New Covenant. His blood of sprinkling speaks better things than that of Abel.
Chapter 13
Verse 8: Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Verse 12: Jesus, so that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate.
Verse 20: The God of peace brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that Great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the Everlasting Covenant.
Verse 21: God works in us what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
