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The Book of Hebrews, Chapter 2, Verse 17

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Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto [his] brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things [pertaining] to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
King James Version
For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
American Standard Version
For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted.
New English Translation
And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?
World English Bible
Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.
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Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
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Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses [was faithful] in all his house.
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For this [man] was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
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For every house is builded by some [man]; but he that built all things [is] God.
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And Moses verily [was] faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
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But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
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Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
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Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
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When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
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Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in [their] heart; and they have not known my ways.