Hebrews 7:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Rom 8:3 : 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, to condemn sin in the flesh.
  • Acts 13:39 : 39 And by him all who believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
  • Heb 7:11-12 : 11 If 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? 12 For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change also of the law.
  • Heb 7:19 : 19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by which we draw near to God.
  • Heb 8:7-9 : 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then there would have been no occasion sought for the second. 8 For finding fault with them, He says, Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in my covenant, and I did not regard them, says the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people: 11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more. 13 In that He says, A new covenant, He has made the first old. Now that which decays and grows old is ready to vanish away.
  • 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?
  • Heb 10:1-9 : 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. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshipers, once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins. 3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins. 5 Therefore, when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you have prepared for me: 6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you had no pleasure. 7 Then I said, Behold, I have come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God. 8 Previously saying, Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin you did not desire, nor had pleasure in them (which are offered according to the law), 9 Then he said, Behold, I have come to do your will, O God. He takes away the first that he may establish the second.
  • Heb 13:9 : 9 Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.
  • Gal 4:21 : 21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?
  • 1 Tim 4:8 : 8 For bodily exercise profits little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
  • 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.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not: on the contrary, we establish the law.
  • Gal 3:15 : 15 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men: Though it is but a man's covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no man annuls or adds to it.
  • Gal 3:17 : 17 And 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.

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  • Heb 7:19-23
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    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:

  • Heb 7:11-13
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    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.

  • Heb 7:15-17
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    15And it is yet far more evident: for in the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest,

    16Who is made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an endless life.

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

  • Heb 7:28
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    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.

  • Gal 3:17
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    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.

  • Heb 8:6-8
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    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.

    8For finding fault with them, He says, Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

  • Heb 8:13
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    13In that He says, A new covenant, He has made the first old. Now that which decays and grows old is ready to vanish away.

  • Heb 10:1
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    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.

  • Mark 7:13
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    13Making the word of God of no effect through your tradition, which you have handed down; and you do many similar things.

  • Rom 4:14-15
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    14For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise nullified.

    15Because the law produces wrath; for where there is no law, there is no transgression.

  • Rom 7:10-14
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    10And the commandment, which was intended for life, I found to be leading to death.

    11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.

    12Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

    13Was then that which is good made death unto me? Certainly not. But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good; that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

    14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.

  • Rom 7:6-8
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    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.

    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not. Indeed, I would not have known sin except through the law: for I would not have known lust unless the law had said, 'You shall not covet.'

    8But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, worked in me all kinds of covetousness. For without the law, sin was dead.

  • Heb 10:8-9
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    8Previously saying, Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin you did not desire, nor had pleasure in them (which are offered according to the law),

    9Then he said, Behold, I have come to do your will, O God. He takes away the first that he may establish the second.

  • Heb 9:17
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    17For a testament is in effect after men are dead, since it has no power at all while the testator lives.

  • Heb 8:4
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    4For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are priests that offer gifts according to the law;

  • Rom 8:3
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    3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, to condemn sin in the flesh.

  • Gal 3:15
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    15Brethren, I speak after the manner of men: Though it is but a man's covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no man annuls or adds to it.

  • Mark 7:7-9
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    7However, in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

    8For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, such as the washing of pots and cups; and many other similar things you do.

    9And he said to them, You completely reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition.

  • Col 2:14
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    14Blotting 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;

  • Heb 9:9
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    9Which was a symbol for the present time, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot make the worshiper perfect in conscience;

  • Gal 5:4
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    4Christ has become of no effect to you, whoever among you are justified by the law; you have fallen from grace.

  • Heb 10:18
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    18Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.

  • Rom 2:25
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    25For circumcision truly profits if you keep the law: but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision.

  • 2 Cor 3:7
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    7But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadily behold the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:

  • Heb 11:40
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    40God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.

  • Eph 2:15
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    15Having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances, to create in Himself of the two one new man, so making peace;

  • Gal 3:21
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    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
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    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:

  • 1 Tim 1:9
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    9Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

  • Heb 10:4
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    4For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.