Hebrews 7:11

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Now if it was possible for things to be made complete through the priests of the house of Levi (for the law was given to the people in connection with them), what need was there for another priest who was of the order of Melchizedek and not of the order of Aaron?

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  • Heb 8:7 : 7 For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second.
  • Heb 7:17-19 : 17 For it has been witnessed of him, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. 18 So the law which went before is put on one side, because it was feeble and without profit. 19 (Because the law made nothing complete), and in its place there is a better hope, through which we come near to God.
  • Gal 2:21 : 21 I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.
  • Heb 5:6 : 6 As he says in another place, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
  • Heb 5:10 : 10 Being named by God a high priest of the order of Melchizedek.
  • Heb 6:20 : 20 Where Jesus has gone before us, as a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
  • Heb 7:15 : 15 And this is even more clear if a second priest has come up who is like Melchizedek,
  • Gal 4:3 : 3 So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world;
  • Gal 4:9 : 9 But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?
  • Col 2:10-17 : 10 And you are complete in him, who is the head of all rule and authority: 11 In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ; 12 Having been put to death with him in baptism, by which you came to life again with him, through faith in the working of God, who made him come back from the dead. 13 And you, being dead through your sins and the evil condition of your flesh, to you, I say, he gave life together with him, and forgiveness of all our sins; 14 Having put an end to the handwriting of the law which was against us, taking it out of the way by nailing it to his cross; 15 Having made himself free from the rule of authorities and powers, he put them openly to shame, glorying over them in it. 16 For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths: 17 For these are an image of the things which are to come; but the body is Christ's.
  • Heb 7:21 : 21 (For those were made priests without an oath, but this one was made a priest with an oath by him who says of him, The Lord gave his oath, which he will not take back, that you are a priest for ever);
  • Heb 8:10-13 : 10 For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people: 11 And there will be no need for every man to be teaching his brother, or his neighbour, saying, This is the knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, great and small. 12 And I will have mercy on their evil-doing, and I will not keep their sins in mind. 13 When he says, A new agreement, he has made the first agreement old. But anything which is getting old and past use will not be seen much longer.
  • Heb 10:1-4 : 1 For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean. 2 For if this had been possible, would there not have been an end of those offerings, because the worshippers would have been made completely clean and would have been no longer conscious of sins? 3 But year by year there is a memory of sins in those offerings. 4 Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins.

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  • Heb 7:12-28
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    12 Because if the priests are changed, it is necessary to make a change in the law.

    13 For he of whom these things are said comes of another tribe, of which no man has ever made offerings at the altar.

    14 Because it is clear that our Lord comes out of Judah, and Moses said nothing about priests from that tribe.

    15 And this is even more clear if a second priest has come up who is like Melchizedek,

    16 That is to say, not made by a law based on the flesh, but by the power of a life without end:

    17 For it has been witnessed of him, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

    18 So the law which went before is put on one side, because it was feeble and without profit.

    19 (Because the law made nothing complete), and in its place there is a better hope, through which we come near to God.

    20 And as this is not without the taking of an oath

    21 (For those were made priests without an oath, but this one was made a priest with an oath by him who says of him, The Lord gave his oath, which he will not take back, that you are a priest for ever);

    22 By so much is it a better agreement which we have through Jesus.

    23 And it is true that there have been a great number of those priests, because death does not let them go on for ever;

    24 But this priest, because his life goes on for ever, is unchanging.

    25 So that he is fully able to be the saviour of all who come to God through him, because he is ever living to make prayer to God for them.

    26 It was right for us to have such a high priest, one who is holy and without evil, doing no wrong, having no part with sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

    27 Who has no need to make offerings for sins every day, like those high priests, first for himself, and then for the people; because he did this once and for ever when he made an offering of himself.

    28 The law makes high priests of men who are feeble; but the word of the oath, which was made after the law, gives that position to a Son, in whom all good is for ever complete.

  • Heb 8:1-7
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    1 Now of the things we are saying this is the chief point: We have such a high priest, who has taken his place at the right hand of God's high seat of glory in heaven,

    2 As a servant of the holy things and of the true Tent, which was put up by God, not by man.

    3 Now every high priest is given authority to take to God the things which are given and to make offerings; so that it is necessary for this man, like them, to have something for an offering.

    4 If he had been on earth he would not have been a priest at all, because there are other priests who make the offerings ordered by the law;

    5 Being servants of that which is a copy and an image of the things in heaven, as Moses, when he was about to make the Tent, had special orders from God: for, See, he said, that you make everything like the design which you saw in the mountain.

    6 But now his position as priest is higher. because through him God has made a better agreement with man, based on the giving of better things.

    7 For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second.

  • Heb 7:1-10
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    1 For this Melchizedek, the king of Salem, a priest of the Most High God, who gave Abraham his blessing, meeting him when he came back after putting the kings to death,

    2 And to whom Abraham gave a tenth part of everything which he had, being first named King of righteousness, and then in addition, King of Salem, that is to say, King of peace;

    3 Being without father or mother, or family, having no birth or end to his life, being made like the Son of God, is a priest for ever.

    4 Now see how great this man was, to whom our father Abraham gave a tenth part of what he had got in the fight.

    5 And it is true that by the law, those of the sons of Levi who have the position of priests may take a tenth part of the people's goods; that is to say, they take it from their brothers though these are the sons of Abraham.

    6 But this man, who was not of their family, took the tenth from Abraham, and gave a blessing to him to whom God had given his undertaking.

    7 But there is no doubt that the less gets his blessing from the greater.

    8 Now at the present time, men over whom death has power take the tenth; but then it was taken by one of whom it is witnessed that he is living.

    9 And we may say that in Abraham, even Levi, who has a right to take the tenth part, gave it;

    10 Because he was still in his father's body when Melchizedek came to him.

  • Heb 5:10
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    10 Being named by God a high priest of the order of Melchizedek.

  • Heb 5:4-6
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    4 And no man who is not given authority by God, as Aaron was, takes this honour for himself.

    5 In the same way Christ did not take for himself the glory of being made a high priest, but was given it by him who said, You are my Son, this day I have given you being:

    6 As he says in another place, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

  • Heb 6:20
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    20 Where Jesus has gone before us, as a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

  • Ps 110:4
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    4 The Lord has made an oath, and will not take it back. You are a priest for ever, after the order of Melchizedek.

  • Heb 9:11
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    11 But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world,

  • Heb 10:1-2
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    1 For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean.

    2 For if this had been possible, would there not have been an end of those offerings, because the worshippers would have been made completely clean and would have been no longer conscious of sins?

  • Heb 5:1
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    1 Every high priest who is taken from among men is given his position to take care of the interests of men in those things which have to do with God, so that he may make offerings for sins.

  • Heb 10:11
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    11 And every priest takes his place at the altar day by day, doing what is necessary, and making again and again the same offerings which are never able to take away sins.

  • Num 16:10
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    10 Letting you, and all your brothers the sons of Levi, come near to him? and would you now be priests?

  • Heb 9:6
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    6 Now while these things were in existence, the priests went into the first Tent at all times, for prayer and the making of offerings.

  • Heb 9:9
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    9 And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean,

  • Heb 2:17
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    17 Because of this it was necessary for him to be made like his brothers in every way, so that he might be a high priest full of mercy and keeping faith in everything to do with God, making offerings for the sins of the people.

  • Heb 3:1
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    1 For this reason, holy brothers, marked out to have a part in heaven, give thought to Jesus the representative and high priest of our faith;