Hebrews 5:9
and being perfected became the author of everlasting salvation to all who obey him,
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
In Context
8though a son yet learned his obedience from what he suffered;
10being addressed by God as high-priest after the order of Melchizedek.
Cross References
Psalms 45:17I will make thy name memorable throughout all generations; So shall the nations praise thee for ever and ever!
Psalms 51:8Make me to hear joy and gladness, So that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice!
Isaiah 45:22Look to me, and be saved, all ye ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is none else.
Isaiah 50:10Who is there among you that feareth Jehovah, That hearkeneth to the voice of his servant, That walketh in darkness and hath no light? Let him trust in the name of Jehovah, And lean upon his God.
Daniel 9:24Seventy weeks are appointed for thy people, and for thy holy city, to complete the iniquity, and to fill up the measure of the sins, and to expiate the guilt, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal vision and prophet, and to anoint a holy of holies.
Matthew 7:24Every one then that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, shall be likened to a wise man, who built his house upon a rock;
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 5:2-10
The Priesthood of Christ. ( a. d. 62.) 1 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: 2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity. 3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins. 4 And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron. 5 So also Christ… Read the whole commentary →