Hebrews 7:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Heb 5:6 : 6 As He also says in another place, 'You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.'
  • Heb 6:20 : 20 Where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, made a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
  • 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.
  • Heb 7:23 : 23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not allowed to continue by reason of death:
  • Heb 9:24-25 : 24 For Christ has not entered into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: 25 Not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the holy place every year with the blood of others;
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,
  • John 11:25-26 : 25 Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life: he who believes in me, though he may die, he shall live: 26 And whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?
  • John 14:6 : 6 Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no one comes to the Father except through me.
  • John 14:19 : 19 Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but you see me: because I live, you will live also.
  • Heb 3:16 : 16 For some, when they heard, did provoke: yet not all who came out of Egypt by Moses.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 7:9-11
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    9And, as I may say, Levi also, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham.

    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?

  • Heb 7:1-7
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    80%

    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.

    4Now consider how great this man was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils.

    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.

  • 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.

  • Luke 20:37-38
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    37Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed in the bush passage, when he called the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

    38For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live to him.

  • Heb 9:15-17
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    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.

    16For where there is a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.

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

  • Heb 7:13
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    13For he of whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, of which no man attended the altar.

  • Heb 11:19
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    19concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.

  • Heb 11:4
    68%

    4By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead still speaks.

  • Num 18:21
    68%

    21And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.

  • Num 18:25-26
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    25And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

    26Thus speak to the Levites, and say to them, When you take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall offer up a heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe.

  • Acts 7:38
    67%

    38This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received the living oracles to give to us:

  • Heb 7:20-22
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    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.

  • Rom 6:10
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    10For the death that He died, He died to sin once; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.

  • Neh 10:37-38
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    37And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all kinds of trees, of wine and of oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

    38And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house.

  • Heb 8:4
    67%

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

  • Deut 10:9
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    9Therefore Levi has no part nor inheritance with his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, just as the LORD your God promised him.

  • Heb 11:13
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    13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, were assured of them, embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

  • Heb 10:15
    67%

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

  • Mal 3:8
    67%

    8Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, 'In what way have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.

  • Gen 14:20
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    20And blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand. And he gave him tithes of all."

  • Rom 10:5
    67%

    5For Moses describes the righteousness which is of the law, that the man who does those things shall live by them.

  • Heb 7:24-25
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    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.

  • Heb 8:1-2
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    66%

    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.

  • Mark 12:27
    66%

    27He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. You are therefore greatly mistaken.

  • Heb 5:6
    66%

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

  • Lev 27:32
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    32And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to the LORD.

  • Num 18:28
    65%

    28Thus you also shall offer a heave offering to the LORD of all your tithes, which you receive of the children of Israel; and you shall give thereof the LORD'S heave offering to Aaron the priest.

  • Heb 8:6
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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.

  • Heb 5:10
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    10Called by God as a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.