Hebrews 7:18

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Rom 8:3 : 3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
  • Acts 13:39 : 39 and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
  • Heb 7:11-12 : 11 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? 12 For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the law.
  • Heb 7:19 : 19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
  • Heb 8:7-9 : 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. 8 For finding fault with them, he said, "Behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that 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 that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn't continue in my covenant, and I disregarded 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 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.
  • 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?
  • Heb 10:1-9 : 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. 5 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire, but you prepared a body for me; 6 You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin. 7 Then I said, 'Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.'" 8 Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the law), 9 then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,
  • Heb 13:9 : 9 Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
  • Gal 4:21 : 21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don't you listen to the law?
  • 1 Tim 4:8 : 8 For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.
  • Heb 9:9-9 : 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; 10 being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
  • Gal 3:15 : 15 Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.
  • Gal 3:17 : 17 Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

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  • Heb 7:19-23
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    19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

    20Inasmuch 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.'"

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

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

  • Heb 7:11-13
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    11Now 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?

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

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

  • Heb 7:15-17
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    15This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest,

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

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

  • Heb 7:28
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    28For 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.

  • Gal 3:17
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    17Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

  • Heb 8:6-8
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    6But 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.

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

    8For finding fault with them, he said, "Behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that 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. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.

  • Heb 10:1
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    1For 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.

  • Mark 7:13
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    13making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this."

  • 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 is made of no effect.

    15For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

  • Rom 7:10-14
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    10The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;

    11for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

    12Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

    13Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

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

  • Rom 7:6-8
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    6But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

    8But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

  • Heb 10:8-9
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    8Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the law),

    9then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,

  • Heb 9:17
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    17For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.

  • Heb 8:4
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    4For 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;

  • Rom 8:3
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    3For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

  • Gal 3:15
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    15Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.

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

    8"For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men--the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things."

    9He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

  • Col 2:14
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    14wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

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

  • Gal 5:4
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    4You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

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

  • Rom 2:25
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    25For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

  • 2 Cor 3:7
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    7But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which was passing away:

  • Heb 11:40
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    40God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

  • Eph 2:15
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    15having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, 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 make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

  • Heb 6:17
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    17In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

  • 1 Tim 1:9
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    9as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and 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 impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.