Hebrews 7:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

Who is made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an endless life.

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  • Rev 1:18 : 18 I am he who lives, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive forevermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
  • Gal 4:3 : 3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the basic principles of the world:
  • Gal 4:9 : 9 But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and beggarly principles, to which you desire again to be in bondage?
  • Col 2:14 : 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
  • Col 2:20 : 20 Therefore if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations,
  • Heb 7:3 : 3 Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like the Son of God; remains a priest continually.
  • Heb 7:17 : 17 For he testifies, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
  • Heb 7:21 : 21 For those priests were made without an oath; but this one with an oath by him that said to him, The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek:
  • Heb 7:24-25 : 24 But he, because he continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood. 25 Therefore he is able also to save completely those who come to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
  • Heb 7:28 : 28 For the law appoints as high priests men who have weaknesses; but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son, who is perfected forever.
  • Heb 9:9-9 : 9 Which was a symbol for the present time, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot make the worshiper perfect in conscience; 10 Concerned only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.
  • Heb 10:1 : 1 For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come and not the actual form of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offer year by year continually make those who come perfect.

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  • Heb 7:17-28
    12 verses
    86%

    17For he testifies, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

    18For there is indeed a setting aside of the former commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness.

    19For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by which we draw near to God.

    20And inasmuch as he was not made priest without an oath:

    21For those priests were made without an oath; but this one with an oath by him that said to him, The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek:

    22By so much was Jesus made the guarantor of a better covenant.

    23And they truly were many priests, because they were not allowed to continue by reason of death:

    24But he, because he continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood.

    25Therefore he is able also to save completely those who come to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

    26For such a high priest was fitting for us, who is holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens;

    27Who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for he did this once, when he offered up himself.

    28For the law appoints as high priests men who have weaknesses; but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son, who is perfected forever.

  • Heb 7:10-15
    6 verses
    84%

    10For he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.

    11If therefore perfection were through the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

    12For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change also of the law.

    13For he of whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, of which no man attended the altar.

    14For it is evident that our Lord arose from Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

    15And it is yet far more evident: for in the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest,

  • Heb 7:1-3
    3 verses
    82%

    1For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the defeat of the kings, and blessed him;

    2To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and then also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;

    3Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like the Son of God; remains a priest continually.

  • Heb 5:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

    5So also Christ did not glorify Himself to become a high priest, but He who said to Him, 'You are My Son, today I have begotten You.'

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

  • Heb 5:9-10
    2 verses
    76%

    9And having been made perfect, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him;

    10Called by God as a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.

  • Heb 6:20
    75%

    20Where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, made a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

  • Ps 110:4
    75%

    4The LORD has sworn and will not relent, You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

  • Heb 8:4-7
    4 verses
    72%

    4For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are priests that offer gifts according to the law;

    5Who serve as an example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, says He, that you make all things according to the pattern shown to you on the mount.

    6But now has he obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.

    7For if that first covenant had been faultless, then there would have been no occasion sought for the second.

  • Heb 8:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1Now of the things we have spoken this is the sum: We have such a high priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

    2A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord set up, and not man.

  • Heb 9:11
    71%

    11But Christ came as a high priest of the good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation;

  • Heb 7:5-8
    4 verses
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    5And indeed those who are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is, from their brothers, though they come from the loins of Abraham:

    6But he whose genealogy is not counted from them received tithes from Abraham, and blessed him who had the promises.

    7And without all contradiction the lesser is blessed by the greater.

    8And here mortal men receive tithes; but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives.

  • Heb 9:17
    69%

    17For a testament is in effect after men are dead, since it has no power at all while the testator lives.

  • Heb 10:1
    69%

    1For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come and not the actual form of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offer year by year continually make those who come perfect.

  • Heb 10:14-15
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    68%

    14For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

    15The Holy Spirit also is a witness to us; for after he had said before,

  • Gal 3:17
    68%

    17And this I say, that the covenant, which was confirmed before by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul, that it should make the promise of no effect.

  • Rom 7:6
    68%

    6But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

  • Rom 8:2
    68%

    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

  • 2 Cor 3:6
    67%

    6Who also made us able ministers of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

  • Heb 9:15
    67%

    15And for this reason He is the mediator of the new covenant, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those who are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

  • Gal 3:21
    67%

    21Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, then truly righteousness would have been by the law.

  • Heb 6:17
    67%

    17In this way, God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable nature of His purpose, confirmed it with an oath:

  • Heb 10:11
    67%

    11And every priest stands daily ministering and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: