Hebrews 7:22

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

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  • Gen 43:9 : 9 Truly, if we had not let the time go by, we might have come back again by now.
  • Gen 44:32 : 32 For I made myself responsible for the boy to my father, saying, If I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.
  • Prov 6:1 : 1 My son, if you have made yourself responsible for your neighbour, or given your word for another,
  • Prov 20:16 : 16 Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.
  • Dan 9:27 : 27 And a strong order will be sent out against the great number for one week; and so for half of the week the offering and the meal offering will come to an end; and in its place will be an unclean thing causing fear; till the destruction which has been fixed is let loose on him who has made waste.
  • Matt 26:28 : 28 Take of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the testament, which is given for men for the forgiveness of sins.
  • Mark 14:24 : 24 And he said to them, This is my blood of the testament, which is given for men.
  • Luke 22:20 : 20 And in the same way, after the meal, he took the cup, saying, This cup is the new testament, made with my blood which is given for you.
  • 1 Cor 11:25 : 25 In the same way, with the cup, after the meal, he said, This cup is the new testament in my blood: do this, whenever you take it, in memory of me.
  • Heb 8:6-9 : 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. 8 For, protesting against them, he says, See, the days are coming when I will make a new agreement with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah; 9 Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand, to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; for they did not keep the agreement with me, and I gave them up, says the Lord. 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.
  • Heb 9:15-23 : 15 And 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. 16 Because where there is a testament, there has to be the death of the man who made it. 17 For a testament has effect after death; for what power has it while the man who made it is living? 18 So that even the first agreement was not made without blood. 19 For when Moses had given all the rules of the law to the people, he took the blood of goats and young oxen, with water and red wool and hyssop, and put it on the book itself and on all the people, 20 Saying, This blood is the sign of the agreement which God has made with you. 21 And the blood was put on the Tent and all the holy vessels in the same way. 22 And by the law almost all things are made clean with blood, and without blood there is no forgiveness. 23 For this cause it was necessary to make the copies of the things in heaven clean with these offerings; but the things themselves are made clean with better offerings than these.
  • Heb 12:24 : 24 And to Jesus by whom the new agreement has been made between God and man, and to the sign of the blood which says better things than Abel's blood.
  • Heb 13:20 : 20 Now may the God of peace, who made that great keeper of his flock, even our Lord Jesus, come back from the dead through the blood of the eternal agreement,

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  • Heb 7:15-21
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    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);

  • Heb 8:5-7
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    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 7:28
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    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 6:20
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    20 Where Jesus has gone before us, as a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

  • Heb 9:15-16
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    15 And 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.

    16 Because where there is a testament, there has to be the death of the man who made it.

  • Heb 6:16-17
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    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;

  • Heb 7:11-12
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    11 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?

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

  • Heb 7:23-26
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    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:

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

  • Heb 1:4
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    4 Having become by so much better than the angels, as the name which is his heritage is more noble than theirs.

  • 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 7:3
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    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.

  • Heb 8:1-2
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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.

  • Heb 12:24
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    24 And to Jesus by whom the new agreement has been made between God and man, and to the sign of the blood which says better things than Abel's blood.

  • Heb 5:9-10
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    9 And when he had been made complete, he became the giver of eternal salvation to all those who are under his orders;

    10 Being named by God a high priest of the order of Melchizedek.

  • Heb 5:6
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    6 As he says in another place, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

  • Heb 9:20
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    20 Saying, This blood is the sign of the agreement which God has made with you.

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

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

  • Heb 9:18
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    18 So that even the first agreement was not made without blood.

  • Heb 13:20
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    20 Now may the God of peace, who made that great keeper of his flock, even our Lord Jesus, come back from the dead through the blood of the eternal agreement,

  • 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 4:14
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    14 Having then a great high priest, who has made his way through the heavens, even Jesus the Son of God, let us be strong in our faith.

  • Heb 6:13
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    13 For when God made his oath to Abraham, because there was no greater oath, he made it by himself,

  • Heb 3:1-2
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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;

    2 Who kept faith with God who gave him his place, even as Moses did in all his house.

  • 1 Chr 16:17
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    17 And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement;

  • Heb 10:10
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    10 By that pleasure we have been made holy, by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for ever.

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

  • Heb 11:40
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    40 Because God had kept some better thing for us, so that it was not possible for them to become complete without us.

  • 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 10:19
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    19 So then, my brothers, being able to go into the holy place without fear, because of the blood of Jesus,

  • Ps 105:9
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    9 The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;

  • Heb 8:13
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    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.