Hebrews 7:21
(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);
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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 7:17 : 17 For it has been witnessed of him, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
- 1 Sam 15:29 : 29 And further, the Glory of Israel will not say what is false, and his purpose may not be changed: for he is not a man, whose purpose may be changed.
- Heb 6:16-18 : 16 For men at all times make their oaths by what is greater; and any argument is ended by the decision of the oath. 17 So that when it was God's desire to make it specially clear to those who by his word were to have the heritage, that his purpose was fixed, he made it more certain with an oath; 18 So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;
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- Heb 7:10-2011 verses90%
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:
17For it has been witnessed of him, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
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
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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 5:5-62 verses83%
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 7:1-33 verses82%
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.
- Heb 7:22-287 verses81%
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.
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10Being named by God a high priest of the order of Melchizedek.
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20Where Jesus has gone before us, as a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
- Heb 8:1-77 verses75%
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;
5Being 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.
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.
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21And having a great priest over the house of God,
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17So that when it was God's desire to make it specially clear to those who by his word were to have the heritage, that his purpose was fixed, he made it more certain with an oath;
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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,
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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.
- Heb 10:11-122 verses71%
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;
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35And I will make a true priest for myself, one who will do what is in my heart and in my mind: and I will make for him a family which will not come to an end; and his place will be before my holy one for ever.
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15And put oil on them as you did on their father, so that they may be my priests: the putting on of oil will make them priests for ever, from generation to generation.
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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.
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13And by this agreement, he and his sons after him have the right to be priests for ever; because, by his care for the honour of his God, he took away the sin of the children of Israel.
- Heb 7:6-72 verses69%
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.
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14Because by one offering he has made complete for ever those who are made holy.
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6Now while these things were in existence, the priests went into the first Tent at all times, for prayer and the making of offerings.
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1For this reason, holy brothers, marked out to have a part in heaven, give thought to Jesus the representative and high priest of our faith;
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18And Melchizedek, king of Salem, the priest of the Most High God, took bread and wine,
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13For when God made his oath to Abraham, because there was no greater oath, he made it by himself,