Verse 16

one who has become a priest not on the basis of a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life.

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Referenced Verses

  • Rev 1:18 : 18 'the living One. I was dead, but look, I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.'
  • Gal 4:3 : 3 In the same way, we too, when we were children, were enslaved under the elemental principles of the world.
  • Gal 4:9 : 9 But now, having come to know God—or rather, having been known by God—how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles, whose slaves you want to be once more?
  • Col 2:14 : 14 He erased the legal debt that stood against us with its decrees. He took it away, nailing it to the cross.
  • Col 2:20 : 20 If you died with Christ to the elemental principles of the world, why, as though still living in the world, do you submit to its decrees?
  • Heb 7:3 : 3 Without father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest forever.
  • Heb 7:17 : 17 For it is testified: 'You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.'
  • Heb 7:21 : 21 but he became a priest with an oath when God said to him: 'The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind: You are a priest forever.'
  • Heb 7:24-25 : 24 but because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood. 25 Therefore, he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.
  • Heb 7:28 : 28 For the law appoints men who are weak as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son, who has been made perfect forever.
  • Heb 9:9-9 : 9 This is a symbol for the present time, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered cannot perfect the worshiper in conscience. 10 They are only regulations concerning food and drink and various ceremonial washings, external ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.
  • Heb 10:1 : 1 For the law, being only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very image of those realities, can never, through the same sacrifices that are continually offered year after year, make those who draw near perfect.