Hebrews 7:19

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Heb 4:16 : 16 Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.
  • Heb 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;
  • 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.
  • 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;
  • Gal 2:16 : 16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
  • Heb 10:1 : 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.
  • Heb 6:18 : 18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
  • Heb 7:11 : 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?
  • Heb 7:25 : 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.
  • Heb 8:6 : 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.
  • Heb 10:19-22 : 19 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21 and having a great priest over the house of God, 22 let's draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
  • Heb 11:40 : 40 God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
  • Gal 3:24 : 24 So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
  • Eph 2:13-18 : 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ. 14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition, 15 having 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; 16 and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, having killed the hostility thereby. 17 He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near. 18 For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
  • Eph 3:12 : 12 in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.
  • Col 1:27 : 27 to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;
  • 1 Tim 1:1 : 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Savior, and Christ Jesus our hope;
  • Rom 3:20-21 : 20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin. 21 But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;
  • Rom 5:2 : 2 through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
  • Ps 73:28 : 28 But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works. A contemplation by Asaph.
  • John 1:17 : 17 For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
  • 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.

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  • Heb 7:15-18
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    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

  • Heb 10:1
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    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.

  • Heb 7:20-22
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    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.

  • Heb 7:28
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    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 8:6-8
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    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.

    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;

  • Heb 7:11-12
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    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 9:11
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    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 11:40
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    40 God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

  • Heb 6:17-20
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    17 In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

    18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

    19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;

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

  • Heb 9:6-9
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    6 Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,

    7 but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.

    8 The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn't yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing;

    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 10:19-21
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    19 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,

    20 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

    21 and having a great priest over the house of God,

  • Heb 7:25-26
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    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;

  • 2 Cor 7:1
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    1 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

  • Heb 10:14-15
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    14 For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

    15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,

  • Heb 8:1-2
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    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.

  • Heb 9:22-24
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    22 According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

    23 It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

    24 For Christ hasn't entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

  • Heb 4:14-16
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    14 Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.

    15 For we don't have a high priest who can't be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

    16 Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.

  • Heb 10:8-10
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    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,

    10 by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

  • Gal 3:17
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    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.

  • Heb 6:1
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    1 Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection--not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

  • Heb 8:13
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    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 8:4
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    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;

  • Heb 9:15
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    15 For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

  • Heb 7:3
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    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 5:9
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    9 Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,