Hebrews 7:22 Parallel Translations
NASB: so much the more also Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: In this way Jesus has become the guarantee of a better promise. (GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
ASV: by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.
BBE: By so much is it a better agreement which we have through Jesus.
DBY: by so much Jesus became surety of a better covenant.
ERV: by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.
WEY: so much the more also is the Covenant of which Jesus has become the guarantor, a better covenant.
WBS: By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
WEB: By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant.
YLT: by so much of a better covenant hath Jesus become surety,
Hebrews 7:22 Cross References
XREF:Psalm 119:122 Be surety for Your servant for good; Do not let the arrogant oppress me.

Isaiah 38:14 "Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter; I moan like a dove; My eyes look wistfully to the heights; O Lord, I am oppressed, be my security.

Hebrews 8:6 But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
PNT: 7:22 By so much. By such solemn means
was Jesus made a surety, the pledge and firm assurance. A surety is intended to secure absolute certainty.
Of a better testament. Rather, covenant. Jesus became the pledge of the new covenant, the Gospel. God has established him as its high priest forever, by the sanctity of an oath. This is the line of argument.
WES: 7:22 Of so much better a covenant - Unchangeable, eternal. Was Jesus made a surety - Or mediator. The word covenant frequently occurs in the remaining part of this epistle. The original word means either a covenant or a last will and testament. St. Paul takes it sometimes in the former, sometimes in the latter, sense; sometimes he includes both.
MHC: 7:11-25 The priesthood and law by which perfection could not come, are done away; a Priest is risen, and a dispensation now set up, by which true believers may be made perfect. That there is such a change is plain. The law which made the Levitical priesthood, showed that the priests were frail, dying creatures, not able to save their own lives, much less could they save the souls of those who came to them. But the High Priest of our profession holds his office by the power of endless life in himself; not only to keep himself alive, but to give spiritual and eternal life to all who rely upon his sacrifice and intercession. The better covenant, of which Jesus was the Surety, is not here contrasted with the covenant of works, by which every transgressor is shut up under the curse. It is distinguished from the Sinai covenant with Israel, and the legal dispensation under which the church so long remained. The better covenant brought the church and every believer into clearer light, more perfect liberty, and more abundant privileges. In the order of Aaron there was a multitude of priests, of high priests one after another; but in the priesthood of Christ there is only one and the same. This is the believer's safety and happiness, that this everlasting High Priest is able to save to the uttermost, in all times, in all cases. Surely then it becomes us to desire a spirituality and holiness, as much beyond those of the Old Testament believers, as our advantages exceed theirs.
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