Hebrews 7:21

World English Bible (2000)

(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.'"

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  • Ps 110:4 : 4 Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: "You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek."
  • Heb 7:17 : 17 for it is testified, "You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek."
  • 1 Sam 15:29 : 29 Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent."
  • Heb 6:16-18 : 16 For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation. 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.

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  • Heb 7:10-20
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    10for he was yet in the body of his father when Melchizedek met him.

    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.

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

    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."

    18For 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.

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

  • Ps 110:4
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    4Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: "You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek."

  • Heb 5:5-6
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    5So 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."

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

  • Heb 7:1-3
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    1For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

    2to 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;

    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.

  • Heb 7:22-28
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    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.

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

    25Therefore 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.

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

    27who 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.

    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.

  • Heb 5:10
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    10named by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.

  • Heb 6:20
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    20where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

  • Heb 8:1-7
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    1Now 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,

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

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

    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;

    5who 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."

    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.

  • Heb 10:21
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    21and having a great priest over the house of God,

  • 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;

  • Heb 9:11
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    11But 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 5:1
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    1For 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 10:11-12
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    11Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,

    12but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;

  • 1 Sam 2:35
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    35I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before my anointed forever.

  • Exod 40:15
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    15You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to me in the priest's office. Their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations."

  • Heb 1:8
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    8But of the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.

  • Num 25:13
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    13and it shall be to him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.'"

  • Heb 7:6-7
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    6but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.

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

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

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

  • Heb 3:1
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    1Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus;

  • Gen 14:18
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    18Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.

  • Heb 6:13
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    13For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself,