Hebrews 7:6

Geneva Bible (1560)

But he whose kindred is not couted among them, receiued tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

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  • Rom 4:13 : 13 For the promise that he should be the heire of the worlde, was not giuen to Abraham, or to his seede, through the Lawe, but through the righteousnesse of faith.
  • Gen 14:19-20 : 19 Therefore he blessed him, saying, Blessed art thou, Abram, of God most high possessour of heauen and earth, 20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath deliuered thine enemies into thine hand. And Abram gaue him tythe of all.
  • Heb 7:3-4 : 3 Without 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. 4 Nowe consider how great this man was, vnto whome euen the Patriarke Abraham gaue the tithe of the spoyles.
  • Heb 11:13 : 13 All these died in faith, and receiued not the promises, but sawe them a farre off, and beleeued them, and receiued them thankefully, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
  • Heb 11:17 : 17 By faith Abraham offered vp Isaac, when he was tryed, and he that had receiued the promises, offered his onely begotten sonne.
  • Gen 12:2 : 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and will blesse thee, and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing.
  • Gen 12:13 : 13 Say, I pray thee, that thou art my sister, that I may fare well for thy sake, & that my life may be preserued by thee.
  • Gen 13:14-17 : 14 Then the Lord saide vnto Abram, (after that Lot was departed from him) Lift vp thine eyes nowe, and looke from the place where thou art, Northward, and Southward, and Eastwarde, and Westward: 15 For all the land, which thou seest, will I giue vnto thee and to thy seede for euer, 16 And I will make thy seede, as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seede be numbred. 17 Arise, walke through the land, in ye length thereof, and breadth thereof: for I will giue it vnto thee.
  • Gen 17:4-8 : 4 Beholde, I make my couenant with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations, 5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shalbe Abraham: for a father of many nations haue I made thee. 6 Also I will make thee exceeding fruitfull, and will make nations of thee: yea, Kings shall proceede of thee. 7 Moreouer I wil establish my couenant betweene me and thee, and thy seede after thee in their generations, for an euerlasting couenant, to be God vnto thee and to thy seede after thee. 8 And I will giue thee and thy seede after thee the land, wherein thou art a stranger, euen all the land of Canaan, for an euerlasting possession, and I will be their God.
  • Gen 22:17-18 : 17 Therefore will I surely blesse thee, and will greatly multiplie thy seede, as the starres of the heauen, and as the sand which is vpon the sea shore, and thy seede shall possesse the gate of his enemies. 18 And in thy seede shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voyce.
  • Acts 3:25 : 25 Ye are the children of the Prophets, and of the couenant, which God hath made vnto our fathers, saying to Abraham, Euen in thy seede shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
  • Rom 9:4 : 4 Which are the Israelites, to whome perteineth the adoption, and the glory, and the Couenants, and the giuing of the Lawe, and the seruice of God, and the promises.
  • Gal 3:16 : 16 Nowe to Abraham and his seede were the promises made. Hee saith not, And to the seedes, as speaking of many: but, And to thy seede, as of one, which is Christ.
  • Heb 6:13-15 : 13 For when God made the promise to Abraham, because he had no greater to sweare by, he sware by himselfe, 14 Saying, Surely I wil aboundantly blesse thee and multiplie thee marueilously. 15 And so after that he had taried patiently, he enioyed the promes.
  • Heb 7:1 : 1 For this Melchi-sedec was King of Salem, the Priest of the most high God, who met Abraham, as he returned from the slaughter of the Kings, and blessed him:

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  • Heb 7:1-5
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    1For this Melchi-sedec was King of Salem, the Priest of the most high God, who met Abraham, as he returned from the slaughter of the Kings, and blessed him:

    2To whom also Abraham gaue the tithe of all things: who first is by interpretation King of righteousnes: after that, he is also King of Salem, that is, King of peace,

    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.

    4Nowe consider how great this man was, vnto whome euen the Patriarke Abraham gaue the tithe of the spoyles.

    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 7:7-11
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    7And without all contradiction the lesse is blessed of the greater.

    8And here men that die, receiue tithes: but there he receiueth them, of whome it is witnessed, that he liueth.

    9And to say as the thing is, Leui also which receiueth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.

    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?

  • Gal 3:6-9
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    6Yea rather as Abraham beleeued God, and it was imputed to him for righteousnes.

    7Knowe ye therefore, that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

    8For the Scripture foreseeing, that God would iustifie the Gentiles through faith, preached before the Gospel vnto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all the Gentiles be blessed.

    9So then they which be of faith, are blessed with faithfull Abraham.

  • Heb 7:13-16
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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.

  • Heb 6:13-14
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    13For when God made the promise to Abraham, because he had no greater to sweare by, he sware by himselfe,

    14Saying, Surely I wil aboundantly blesse thee and multiplie thee marueilously.

  • Heb 11:17-18
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    17By faith Abraham offered vp Isaac, when he was tryed, and he that had receiued the promises, offered his onely begotten sonne.

    18(To whom it was said, In Isaac shall thy seede be called.)

  • Gen 14:19-20
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    19Therefore he blessed him, saying, Blessed art thou, Abram, of God most high possessour of heauen and earth,

    20And blessed be the most high God, which hath deliuered thine enemies into thine hand. And Abram gaue him tythe of all.

  • Gen 28:4
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    4And giue thee the blessing of Abraham, euen to thee & to thy seede with thee, that thou mayest inherite the lande (wherein thou art a stranger,) which God gaue vnto Abraham.

  • Gen 12:3
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    3I will also blesse them that blesse thee, and curse them that curse thee, and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

  • Acts 7:8
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    8Hee gaue him also the couenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begate Isaac, and circumcised him the eight day: and Isaac begate Iacob, and Iacob the twelue Patriarkes.

  • Heb 7:20
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    20And for as much as it is not without an othe (for these are made Priestes without an othe:

  • Gal 3:14-16
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    14That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Iesus, that wee might receiue the promes of the Spirite through faith.

    15Brethren, I speake as men do: though it be but a mans couenant, when it is confirmed, yet no man doeth abrogate it, or addeth any thing thereto.

    16Nowe to Abraham and his seede were the promises made. Hee saith not, And to the seedes, as speaking of many: but, And to thy seede, as of one, which is Christ.

  • Acts 7:5
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    5And hee gaue him none inheritance in it, no, not the bredth of a foote: yet he promised that he would giue it to him for a possession, and to his seede after him, when as yet hee had no childe.

  • Rom 4:9-10
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    9Came this blessednesse then vpon the circumcision onely, or vpon the vncircumcision also? For we say, that faith was imputed vnto Abraham for righteousnesse.

    10Howe was it then imputed? when he was circumcised, or vncircumcised? not when he was cricumcised, but when he was vncircumcised.

  • Matt 1:2
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    2Abraham begate Isaac. And Isaac begate Iacob; Iacob begat Iudas and his brethren.

  • Acts 3:25
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    25Ye are the children of the Prophets, and of the couenant, which God hath made vnto our fathers, saying to Abraham, Euen in thy seede shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

  • Rom 9:5
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    5Of whome are the fathers, and of whome concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is God ouer all, blessed for euer, Amen.

  • Rom 9:7
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    7Neither are they all children, because they are the seede of Abraham: but, In Isaac shall thy seede be called:

  • Deut 10:9
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    9Wherefore Leui hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren: for the Lord is his inheritance, as the Lord thy God hath promised him.

  • Heb 11:9
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    9By faith he abode in the land of promes, as in a strange countrey, as one that dwelt in tents with Isaac and Iacob heires with him of the same promes.

  • Rom 4:12-13
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    12And the father of circumcision, not vnto them onely which are of the circumcision, but vnto them also that walke in the steppes of the faith of our father Abraham, which he had when he was vncircumcised.

    13For the promise that he should be the heire of the worlde, was not giuen to Abraham, or to his seede, through the Lawe, but through the righteousnesse of faith.

  • Luke 1:73
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    73And the othe which he sware to our father Abraham.

  • Rom 4:16
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    16Therefore it is by faith, that it might come by grace, and the promise might be sure to all the seede, not to that onely which is of the Lawe: but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of vs all,

  • 1 Chr 16:16
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    16Which he made with Abraham, and his othe to Izhak:

  • Gen 18:18
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    18Seeing that Abraham shalbe in deede a great and a mightie nation, and all the nations of the earth shalbe blessed in him?

  • Heb 11:20
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    20By faith Isaac blessed Iacob and Esau, concerning things to come.

  • Gal 3:18
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    18For if the inheritance be of the Lawe, it is no more by the promise, but God gaue it freely vnto Abraham by promise.

  • Rom 4:2
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    2For if Abraham were iustified by workes, he hath wherein to reioyce, but not with God.