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- Heb 7:11-15 : 11 Now if there was perfection {G2258} through the Levitical priesthood (for under it hath the people received the law), what further need [was there] that another priest should arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be reckoned after the order of Aaron? 12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. 13 For he of whom these things are said belongeth to another tribe, from which no man hath given attendance at the altar. 14 For it is evident that our Lord hath sprung out of Judah; as to which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priests. 15 And [what we say] is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there ariseth another priest,
- 2 Chr 26:18-19 : 18 and they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It pertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto Jehovah, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honor from Jehovah God. 19 Then Uzziah was wroth; and he had a censer in his hand to burn incense; and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy brake forth in his forehead before the priests in the house of Jehovah, beside the altar of incense.
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- Heb 8:1-33 verses84%
1Now in the things which we are saying the chief point [is this]: We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
2a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, {G2532} not man.
3For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that this [high priest] also have somewhat to offer.
- Heb 7:11-177 verses78%
11Now if there was perfection {G2258} through the Levitical priesthood (for under it hath the people received the law), what further need [was there] that another priest should arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be reckoned after the order of Aaron?
12For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
13For he of whom these things are said belongeth to another tribe, from which no man hath given attendance at the altar.
14For it is evident that our Lord hath sprung out of Judah; as to which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priests.
15And [what we say] is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there ariseth another priest,
16who hath been made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life:
17for it is witnessed [of him], Thou art a priest for ever After the order of Melchizedek.
- Heb 8:5-73 verses77%
5who serve [that which is] a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses is warned [of God] when he is about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern that was showed thee in the mount.
6But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises.
7For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, then would no {G302} place have been sought for a second.
- Heb 7:19-213 verses76%
19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw nigh unto God.
20And inasmuch as [it is] not without the taking of an oath
21(for {G3303} they indeed have been made priests without an oath; but he with an oath by him that saith of him, The Lord sware and will not repent himself, Thou art a priest for ever);
- Heb 7:26-283 verses76%
26For such a high priest became us, holy, guileless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
27who {G2192} needeth not {G2596} daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the [sins] of the people: for this he did once for all, when he offered up himself.
28For the law appointeth men high priests, having infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was after the law, [appointeth] a Son, perfected for evermore.
- Heb 9:23-253 verses75%
23It was necessary therefore that {G3303} the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
24For Christ entered {G1525} not into a holy place made with hands, like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:
25nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place year by year with blood not his own;
- Heb 9:6-94 verses74%
6Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services;
7but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offereth for himself, and for the errors of the people:
8the Holy Spirit this signifying, that the way into the holy place hath not yet been made manifest, while the first tabernacle is yet standing;
9which [is] a figure for the time present; according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that cannot, {G3361} as touching the conscience, make the worshipper perfect,
- Heb 10:1-22 verses73%
1For the law having a shadow of the good [things] to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, {G1519} which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh.
2Else would they not {G302} have ceased to be offered? because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins.
- Heb 5:3-64 verses72%
3and by reason thereof is bound, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.
4And no man taketh the honor unto himself, but when he is called of God, even as was Aaron.
5So Christ also glorified not himself to be made a high priest, but he that spake unto him, Thou art my Son, This day have I begotten thee:
6as he saith also in another [place], Thou art a priest for ever After the order of Melchizedek.
- Heb 4:14-152 verses70%
14Having then a great high priest, who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
15For we have not a high priest that {G1410} cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points tempted {G3987} like as [we are, yet] without sin.
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1Now {G3303} even a first [covenant] had ordinances of divine service, and its sanctuary, [a sanctuary] of this world.