Hebrews 7:12

Geneva Bible (1560)

For if the Priesthood be changed, then of necessitie must there be a change of the Lawe.

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  • Isa 66:21 : 21 And I will take of them for Priestes, and for Leuites, saith the Lord.
  • Jer 31:31-34 : 31 Beholde, the dayes come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new couenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Iudah, 32 Not according to ye couenant that I made with their fathers, when I tooke them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, the which my couenant they brake, although I was an husband vnto them, saith the Lord. 33 But this shall be the couenant that I will make with the house of Israel, After those dayes, saith the Lord, I will put my Lawe in their inward partes, and write it in their hearts, and wil be their God, and they shalbe my people. 34 And they shall teach no more euery man his neighbour and euery man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me from the least of them vnto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I wil forgiue their iniquitie, and will remember their sinnes no more.
  • Ezek 16:61 : 61 Then thou shalt remember thy wayes, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receiue thy sisters, both thy elder & thy yonger, and I will giue them vnto thee for daughters, but not by thy couenat.
  • Acts 6:13-14 : 13 And set forth false witnesses, which sayd, This man ceasseth not to speake blasphemous wordes against this holy place, and the Law. 14 For we haue heard him say, that this Iesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the ordinances, which Moses gaue vs.

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  • Heb 7:10-11
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    10For hee was yet in the loynes of his father Abraham, when Melchi-sedec met him.

    11If therefore perfection had bene by the Priesthoode of the Leuites (for vnder it the Lawe was established to the people) what needed it furthermore, that another Priest should rise after the order of Melchi-sedec, and not to be called after the order of Aaron?

  • Heb 7:13-24
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    13For hee of whome these things are spoken, perteineth vnto another tribe, whereof no man serued at the altar.

    14For it is euident, that our Lord sprung out of Iuda, concerning the which tribe Moses spake nothing, touching the Priesthood.

    15And it is yet a more euident thing, because that after the similitude of Melchi-sedec, there is risen vp another Priest,

    16Which is not made Priest after the Law of the carnal commandement, but after the power of the endlesse life.

    17For hee testifieth thus, Thou art a Priest for euer, after the order of Melchi-sedec.

    18For the commaundement that went afore, is disanulled, because of the weakenes thereof, and vnprofitablenes.

    19For the Law made nothing perfite, but the bringing in of a better hope made perfite, whereby we drawe neere vnto God.

    20And for as much as it is not without an othe (for these are made Priestes without an othe:

    21But this is made with an othe by him that said vnto him, The Lord hath sworne, and will not repent, Thou art a Priest for euer, after the order of Melchi-sedec)

    22By so much is Iesus made a suretie of a better Testament.

    23And among them many were made Priests, because they were not suffered to endure, by the reason of death.

    24But this man, because hee endureth euer, hath a Priesthood, which cannot passe from one to another.

  • Heb 7:26-28
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    26For such an hie Priest it became vs to haue, which is holy, harmelesse, vndefiled, separate from sinners, and made hier then the heauens:

    27Which needeth not daily as those hie Priests to offer vp sacrifice, first for his owne sinnes, and then for the peoples: for that did he once, when he offered vp himselfe.

    28For the Lawe maketh men hie Priestes, which haue infirmitie: but the word of the othe that was since the Lawe, maketh the Sonne, who is consecrated for euermore.

  • Heb 8:1-7
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    1Nowe of the things which we haue spoken, this is the summe, that wee haue such an hie Priest, that sitteth at the right hand of the throne of the Maiestie in heauens,

    2And is a minister of the Sanctuarie, and of that true Tabernacle which the Lorde pight, and not man.

    3For euery high Priest is ordeined to offer both giftes and sacrifices: wherefore it was of necessitie, that this man shoulde haue somewhat also to offer.

    4For he were not a Priest, if he were on the earth, seeing there are Priestes that according to the Lawe offer giftes,

    5Who serue vnto the paterne and shadowe of heauenly things, as Moses was warned by God, whe he was about to finish the Tabernacle. See, saide hee, that thou make all thinges according to the paterne, shewed to thee in the mount.

    6But nowe our hie Priest hath obteined a more excellent office, in as much as he is the Mediatour of a better Testament, which is established vpon better promises.

    7For if that first Testament had bene vnblameable, no place should haue bene sought for the second.

  • Heb 5:6
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    6As he also in another place speaketh, Thou art a Priest for euer, after ye order of Melchi-sedec.

  • Heb 7:3
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    3Without father, without mother, without kinred, and hath neither beginning of his dayes, neither ende of life: but is likened vnto the Sonne of God, and continueth a Priest for euer.

  • Heb 5:10
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    10And is called of God an hie Priest after the order of Melchisedec.

  • Heb 10:1-2
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    1For the Lawe hauing the shadowe of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can neuer with those sacrifices, which they offer yeere by yeere continually, sanctifie the commers thereunto.

    2For would they not then haue ceased to haue bene offered, because that the offerers once purged, should haue had no more conscience of sinnes?

  • Heb 6:20
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    20Whither the forerunner is for vs entred in, euen Iesus that is made an hie Priest for euer after the order of Melchi-sedec.

  • Heb 9:11
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    11But Christ being come an high Priest of good things to come, by a greater and a more perfect Tabernacle, not made with handes, that is, not of this building,

  • Heb 5:1
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    1For euery hie Priest is taken from among men, and is ordeined for men, in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both giftes and sacrifices for sinnes,

  • Heb 7:5
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    5For verely they which are the childre of Leui, which receiue the office of the Priesthode, haue a commaundement to take, according to the Law, tithes of the people (that is, of their bethren) though they came out of ye loynes of Abraham.

  • Heb 8:13
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    13In that he saith a new Testament, he hath abrogate the olde: nowe that which is disanulled and waxed olde, is ready to vanish away.

  • Heb 9:15-17
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    69%

    15And for this cause is he the Mediatour of the newe Testament, that through death which was for the redemption of the transgressions that were in the former Testament, they which were called, might receiue the promise of eternall inheritance.

    16For where a Testament is, there must be the death of him that made the Testament.

    17For the Testament is confirmed when men are dead: for it is yet of no force as long as he that made it, is aliue.

  • Lev 7:7
    69%

    7As the sinne offring is, so is the trespasse offring, one lawe serueth for both: that wherewith the Priest shall make atonement, shalbe his.

  • Ps 110:4
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    4The Lord sware & wil not repent, Thou art a Priest for euer after ye order of Melchi-zedek.

  • Heb 9:6
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    6Nowe when these things were thus ordeined, the Priestes went alwayes into the first Tabernacle, and accomplished the seruice.

  • Heb 10:9
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    9Then sayd he, Lo, I come to doe thy wil, O God, he taketh away the first, that he may stablish the second.

  • Mal 2:7-8
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    7For the Priestes lippes shoulde preserue knowledge, and they shoulde seeke the Lawe at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lorde of hostes.

    8But yee are gone out of the way: yee haue caused many to fall by the Lawe: yee haue broken the couenant of Leui, sayeth the Lord of hostes.

  • Heb 10:11
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    11And euery Priest standeth dayly ministring, and oft times offreth one maner of offring, which can neuer take away sinnes:

  • Heb 9:23
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    23It was then necessary, that the similitudes of heauenly things should be purified with such things: but the heauenly things them selues are purified with better sacrifices then are these.

  • Heb 2:17
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    17Wherefore in all things it behoued him to be made like vnto his brethren, that hee might be mercifull, and a faithfull hie Priest in things concerning God, that he might make reconciliation for the sinnes of the people.

  • Heb 9:9
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    9Which was a figure for that present time, wherein were offred gifts and sacrifices that could not make holy, concerning the conscience, him that did the seruice,

  • Heb 10:15
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    15For the holy Ghost also beareth vs record: for after that he had sayd before,

  • Rom 7:6
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    6But now we are deliuered from the Lawe, he being dead in whom we were holden, that we should serue in newnesse of Spirite, and not in the oldnesse of the letter.

  • Heb 10:21
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    21And seeing we haue an hie Priest, which is ouer the house of God,