Hebrews 7:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Ps 110:4 : 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 5:6 : 6 As he says in another place, You are a priest for ever after 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 7:21 : 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 7:15 : 15 And this is even more clear if a second priest has come up who is like Melchizedek,
  • Heb 5:10 : 10 Being named by God a high priest of the order of Melchizedek.

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  • Heb 7:18-28
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    18So 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.

    20And 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);

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

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

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

    25So 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.

    26It 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:

    27Who 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.

    28The 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 5:5-6
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    5In 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:

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

  • Heb 7:6-16
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    6But 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.

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

    8Now 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.

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

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

    11Now 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?

    12Because if the priests are changed, it is necessary to make a change in the law.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Heb 7:1-4
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    1For 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,

    2And 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;

    3Being 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.

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

  • Heb 8:1-4
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    1Now 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,

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

    3Now 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.

    4If 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;

  • Heb 10:14-15
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    14Because by one offering he has made complete for ever those who are made holy.

    15And the Holy Spirit is a witness for us: for after he had said,

  • Heb 5:1
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    1Every 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.

  • Gen 14:18
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    18And Melchizedek, king of Salem, the priest of the Most High God, took bread and wine,

  • Heb 8:6-7
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    6But 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.

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

  • Heb 1:8
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    8But of the Son he says, Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; and the rod of your kingdom is a rod of righteousness.

  • Heb 10:11-12
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    70%

    11And 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.

    12But when Jesus had made one offering for sins for ever, he took his place at the right hand of God;

  • Heb 10:21
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    21And having a great priest over the house of God,

  • Heb 9:11
    69%

    11But 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 9:15
    69%

    15And for this cause it is through him that a new agreement has come into being, so that after the errors under the first agreement had been taken away by his death, the word of God might have effect for those who were marked out for an eternal heritage.

  • Heb 13:8
    69%

    8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever.

  • Heb 9:17
    69%

    17For a testament has effect after death; for what power has it while the man who made it is living?

  • Heb 10:9
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    9Then he said, See, I have come to do your pleasure. He took away the old order, so that he might put the new order in its place.