Hebrews 7:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

who came not according to the law of a fleshly command, but according to the power of an endless life,

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  • Rev 1:18 : 18 and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death.
  • Gal 4:3 : 3 so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,
  • Gal 4:9 : 9 and now, having known God -- and rather being known by God -- how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?
  • Col 2:14 : 14 having blotted out the handwriting in the ordinances that is against us, that was contrary to us, and he hath taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;
  • Col 2:20 : 20 If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?
  • Heb 7:3 : 3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, and being made like to the Son of God, doth remain a priest continually.
  • Heb 7:17 : 17 for He doth testify -- `Thou `art' a priest -- to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;'
  • Heb 7:21 : 21 and he with an oath through Him who is saying unto him, `The Lord sware, and will not repent, Thou `art' a priest -- to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;')
  • Heb 7:24-25 : 24 and he, because of his remaining -- to the age, hath the priesthood not transient, 25 whence also he is able to save to the very end, those coming through him unto God -- ever living to make intercession for them.
  • Heb 7:28 : 28 for the law doth appoint men chief priests, having infirmity, but the word of the oath that `is' after the law `appointeth' the Son -- to the age having been perfected.
  • Heb 9:9-9 : 9 which `is' a simile in regard to the present time, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, which are not able, in regard to conscience, to make perfect him who is serving, 10 only in victuals, and drinks, and different baptisms, and fleshly ordinances -- till the time of reformation imposed upon `them'.
  • Heb 10:1 : 1 For the law having a shadow of the coming good things -- not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near,

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  • Heb 7:17-28
    12 verses
    86%

    17 for He doth testify -- `Thou `art' a priest -- to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;'

    18 for a disannulling indeed doth come of the command going before because of its weakness, and unprofitableness,

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

    20 And inasmuch as `it is' not apart from oath, (for those indeed apart from oath are become priests,

    21 and he with an oath through Him who is saying unto him, `The Lord sware, and will not repent, Thou `art' a priest -- to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;')

    22 by so much of a better covenant hath Jesus become surety,

    23 and those indeed are many who have become priests, because by death they are hindered from remaining;

    24 and he, because of his remaining -- to the age, hath the priesthood not transient,

    25 whence also he is able to save to the very end, those coming through him unto God -- ever living to make intercession for them.

    26 For such a chief priest did become us -- kind, harmless, undefiled, separate from the sinners, and become higher than the heavens,

    27 who hath no necessity daily, as the chief priests, first for his own sins to offer up sacrifice, then for those of the people; for this he did once, having offered up himself;

    28 for the law doth appoint men chief priests, having infirmity, but the word of the oath that `is' after the law `appointeth' the Son -- to the age having been perfected.

  • Heb 7:10-15
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    84%

    10 for he was yet in the loins of the father when Melchisedek met him.

    11 If indeed, then, perfection were through the Levitical priesthood -- for the people under it had received law -- what further need, according to the order of Melchisedek, for another priest to arise, and not to be called according to the order of Aaron?

    12 for the priesthood being changed, of necessity also, of the law a change doth come,

    13 for he of whom these things are said in another tribe hath had part, of whom no one gave attendance at the altar,

    14 for `it is' evident that out of Judah hath arisen our Lord, in regard to which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.

    15 And it is yet more abundantly most evident, if according to the similitude of Melchisedek there doth arise another priest,

  • Heb 7:1-3
    3 verses
    82%

    1 For this Melchisedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who did meet Abraham turning back from the smiting of the kings, and did bless him,

    2 to whom also a tenth of all did Abraham divide, (first, indeed, being interpreted, `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, and being made like to the Son of God, doth remain a priest continually.

  • Heb 5:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

    5 so also the Christ did not glorify himself to become chief priest, but He who spake unto him: `My Son thou art, I to-day have begotten thee;'

    6 as also in another `place' He saith, `Thou `art' a priest -- to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;'

  • Heb 5:9-10
    2 verses
    76%

    9 and having been made perfect, he did become to all those obeying him a cause of salvation age-during,

    10 having been addressed by God a chief priest, according to the order of Melchisedek,

  • Heb 6:20
    75%

    20 whither a forerunner for us did enter -- Jesus, after the order of Melchisedek chief priest having become -- to the age.

  • Ps 110:4
    75%

    4 Jehovah hath sworn, and doth not repent, `Thou `art' a priest to the age, According to the order of Melchizedek.'

  • Heb 8:4-7
    4 verses
    72%

    4 for if, indeed, he were upon earth, he would not be a priest -- (there being the priests who are offering according to the law, the gifts,

    5 who unto an example and shadow do serve of the heavenly things, as Moses hath been divinely warned, being about to construct the tabernacle, for `See (saith He) thou mayest make all things according to the pattern that was shewn to thee in the mount;') --

    6 and now he hath obtained a more excellent service, how much also of a better covenant is he mediator, which on better promises hath been sanctioned,

    7 for if that first were faultless, a place would not have been sought for a second.

  • Heb 8:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1 And the sum concerning the things spoken of `is': we have such a chief priest, who did sit down at the right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens,

    2 of the holy places a servant, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord did set up, and not man,

  • Heb 9:11
    71%

    11 And Christ being come, chief priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands -- that is, not of this creation --

  • Heb 7:5-8
    4 verses
    70%

    5 and those, indeed, out of the sons of Levi receiving the priesthood, a command have to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is, their brethren, even though they came forth out of the loins of Abraham;

    6 and he who was not reckoned by genealogy of them, received tithes from Abraham, and him having the promises he hath blessed,

    7 and apart from all controversy, the less by the better is blessed --

    8 and here, indeed, men who die do receive tithes, and there `he', who is testified to that he was living,

  • Heb 9:17
    69%

    17 for a covenant over dead victims `is' stedfast, since it is no force at all when the covenant-victim liveth,

  • Heb 10:1
    69%

    1 For the law having a shadow of the coming good things -- not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near,

  • Heb 10:14-15
    2 verses
    68%

    14 for by one offering he hath perfected to the end those sanctified;

    15 and testify to us also doth the Holy Spirit, for after that He hath said before,

  • Gal 3:17
    68%

    17 and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise,

  • Rom 7:6
    68%

    6 and now we have ceased from the law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.

  • Rom 8:2
    68%

    2 for the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus did set me free from the law of the sin and of the death;

  • 2 Cor 3:6
    67%

    6 who also made us sufficient `to be' ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive.

  • Heb 9:15
    67%

    15 And because of this, of a new covenant he is mediator, that, death having come, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those called may receive the promise of the age-during inheritance,

  • Gal 3:21
    67%

    21 the law, then, `is' against the promises of God? -- let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness,

  • Heb 6:17
    67%

    17 in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath,

  • Heb 10:11
    67%

    11 and every priest, indeed, hath stood daily serving, and the same sacrifices many times offering, that are never able to take away sins.