Hebrews 7:11

World English Bible (2000)

Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Heb 8:7 : 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.
  • Heb 7:17-19 : 17 for it is testified, "You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek." 18 For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness 19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
  • Gal 2:21 : 21 I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"
  • Heb 5:6 : 6 As he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek."
  • Heb 5:10 : 10 named by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
  • Heb 6:20 : 20 where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
  • Heb 7:15 : 15 This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest,
  • Gal 4:3 : 3 So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.
  • Gal 4:9 : 9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
  • Col 2:10-17 : 10 and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power; 11 in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ; 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. 13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross; 15 having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. 16 Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day, 17 which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.
  • Heb 7:21 : 21 (for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him, "The Lord swore and will not change his mind, 'You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.'"
  • Heb 8:10-13 : 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 mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 11 They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all will know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more." 13 In that he says, "A new covenant," he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.
  • Heb 10:1-4 : 1 For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near. 2 Or else wouldn't they have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins? 3 But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins. 4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Heb 7:12-28
    17 verses
    85%

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

    13 For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar.

    14 For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

    15 This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest,

    16 who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life:

    17 for it is testified, "You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek."

    18 For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

    19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

    20 Inasmuch as he was not made priest without the taking of an oath

    21 (for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him, "The Lord swore and will not change his mind, 'You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.'"

    22 By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant.

    23 Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered from continuing by death.

    24 But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable.

    25 Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

    26 For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

    27 who doesn't need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.

    28 For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.

  • Heb 8:1-7
    7 verses
    78%

    1 Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

    2 a servant of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

    3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.

    4 For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;

    5 who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, "See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain."

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

    7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.

  • Heb 7:1-10
    10 verses
    78%

    1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

    2 to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace;

    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.

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

    5 They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest's office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of Abraham,

    6 but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.

    7 But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater.

    8 Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives.

    9 We can say that through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes,

    10 for he was yet in the body of his father when Melchizedek met him.

  • Heb 5:10
    77%

    10 named by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.

  • Heb 5:4-6
    3 verses
    77%

    4 Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.

    5 So also Christ didn't glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, "You are my Son. Today I have become your father."

    6 As he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek."

  • Heb 6:20
    74%

    20 where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

  • Ps 110:4
    73%

    4 Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: "You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek."

  • Heb 9:11
    72%

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

  • Heb 10:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1 For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

    2 Or else wouldn't they have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

  • Heb 5:1
    70%

    1 For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

  • Heb 10:11
    70%

    11 Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,

  • Num 16:10
    68%

    10 and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? and do you seek the priesthood also?

  • Heb 9:6
    67%

    6 Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,

  • Heb 9:9
    67%

    9 which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshipper perfect;

  • Heb 2:17
    67%

    17 Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

  • Heb 3:1
    67%

    1 Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus;