Hebrews 7:22

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Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant.

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  • Gen 43:9 : 9 I will be a guarantee for him; you can hold me personally responsible. If I do not bring him back to you and set him here before you, I will bear the blame before you all my life.
  • Gen 44:32 : 32 For your servant took responsibility for the boy before my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.'
  • Prov 6:1 : 1 My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, if you have shaken hands in pledge with a stranger,
  • Prov 20:16 : 16 Take a garment as security from one who guarantees a stranger's debt; hold it in pledge if it is for a foreign woman.
  • Dan 9:27 : 27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week, he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, until the decreed destruction is poured out on the desolator.
  • Matt 26:28 : 28 This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
  • Mark 14:24 : 24 He said to them, "This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.
  • Luke 22:20 : 20 In the same way, after supper, he took the cup and said, 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.'
  • 1 Cor 11:25 : 25 In the same way, He also took the cup after supper, saying, 'This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.'
  • Heb 8:6-9 : 6 But now Jesus has obtained a more excellent ministry, as he is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been established on better promises. 7 If that first covenant had been without fault, there would have been no need to seek a second one. 8 But finding fault with them, he says: 'Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.' 9 It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and so I turned away from them, declares the Lord. 10 This is the covenant I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 11 No longer will they teach their neighbors or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. 12 For I will be merciful toward their unrighteousness, and I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.
  • Heb 9:15-23 : 15 Therefore, Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that He has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant. 16 For where there is a will, it must be established that the death of the one who made it has occurred. 17 For a will takes effect only when someone has died; it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive. 18 This is why even the first covenant was not inaugurated without blood. 19 For when every commandment of the law had been proclaimed by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, 20 saying, 'This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to follow.' 21 In the same way, he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels used in worship. 22 Indeed, according to the Law, almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. 23 Therefore, it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves require better sacrifices than these.
  • Heb 12:24 : 24 to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
  • Heb 13:20 : 20 Now may the God of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,

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  • Heb 7:15-21
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    15 And this becomes even more evident if another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,

    16 one who has become a priest not on the basis of a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life.

    17 For it is testified: 'You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.'

    18 The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless,

    19 (for the law made nothing perfect), but a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.

    20 And it was not without an oath! Others became priests without any oath,

    21 but he became a priest with an oath when God said to him: 'The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind: You are a priest forever.'

  • Heb 8:5-7
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    5 These priests serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned when he was about to set up the tabernacle. For God said, 'See that you make everything according to the pattern shown to you on the mountain.'

    6 But now Jesus has obtained a more excellent ministry, as he is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been established on better promises.

    7 If that first covenant had been without fault, there would have been no need to seek a second one.

  • Heb 7:28
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    28 For the law appoints men who are weak as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son, who has been made perfect forever.

  • Heb 6:20
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    20 where Jesus, the forerunner for us, has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.

  • Heb 9:15-16
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    15 Therefore, Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that He has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.

    16 For where there is a will, it must be established that the death of the one who made it has occurred.

  • Heb 6:16-17
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    16 People swear by someone greater than themselves, and an oath confirms what is said and puts an end to all argument.

    17 Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.

  • Heb 7:11-12
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    11 If perfection could have been achieved through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), why was there still a need for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, rather than one according to the order of Aaron?

    12 For when there is a change in the priesthood, there must also be a change in the law.

  • Heb 7:23-26
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    23 Now there have been many priests since death prevented them from continuing in office;

    24 but because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood.

    25 Therefore, he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.

    26 Such a high priest truly meets our need: one who is holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

  • Heb 7:7
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    7 It is universally recognized that the lesser is blessed by the greater.

  • Heb 1:4
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    4 So He became as much superior to the angels as the name He has inherited is more excellent than theirs.

  • Heb 9:11
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    11 But Christ came as the high priest of the good things that are to come. He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is, not of this creation.

  • Heb 7:3
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    3 Without father or mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest forever.

  • Heb 8:1-2
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    1 Now here is the main point: We have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens.

    2 He serves in the holy place and the true tabernacle, which was set up by the Lord and not by man.

  • Heb 12:24
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    24 to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

  • Heb 5:9-10
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    9 And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him.

    10 He was designated by God as a high priest in the order of Melchizedek.

  • Heb 5:6
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    6 As He also says in another place, 'You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.'

  • Heb 9:20
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    20 saying, 'This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to follow.'

  • Heb 10:14-15
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    14 For by one offering, He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

    15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First, He says:

  • Heb 9:18
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    18 This is why even the first covenant was not inaugurated without blood.

  • Heb 13:20
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    20 Now may the God of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,

  • Heb 2:17
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    17 Therefore, He had to be made like His brothers in every way, so that He might become a merciful and faithful High Priest in service to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

  • Heb 4:14
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    14 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens—Jesus, the Son of God—let us hold firmly to the faith we profess.

  • Heb 6:13
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    13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,

  • Heb 3:1-2
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    1 Therefore, holy brothers and sisters who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest whom we confess.

    2 He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God's house.

  • 1 Chr 16:17
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    17 He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant.

  • Heb 10:10
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    10 And by that will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

  • Heb 10:21
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    21 and since we have a great high priest over the house of God,

  • Heb 11:40
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    40 Since God had provided something better for us, so that they would not be made perfect without us.

  • Ps 110:4
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    4 The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind: "You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek."

  • Heb 10:19
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    19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,

  • Ps 105:9
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    9 The covenant He made with Abraham, and His oath to Isaac.

  • Heb 8:13
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    13 By calling this covenant 'new,' he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.