Hebrews 7:16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁶ who did not become a priest based on a legal regulation about physical  descent but based on the power of an indestructible life.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Who has been constituted a Priest, not on the basis of a bodily legal requirement [an externally imposed command concerning His physical ancestry], but on the basis of the power of an endless and indestructible Life.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹⁶ He has become a priest by the power of a life that can’t be destroyed, rather than a legal requirement about physical descent.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ who was made, not according to the law of a carnal commandment, but according to the virtue of an indissoluble life.

Hebrews 7:16 Cross References

Romans 7:14

For we know that the law is spiritual,  but I am of the flesh,  sold  as a slave under sin.

Galatians 4:3

In the same way we also, when we were children, were in slavery under the elements  of the world.

Galatians 4:9

But now, since you know God,  or rather have become known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless  elements?  Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

Colossians 2:14

He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.

Colossians 2:20

If you died with Christ  to the elements of this world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations:

Hebrews 10:1

Since the law has only a shadow of the good things  to come, and not the reality itself of those things, it can never perfect the worshippers by the same sacrifices they continually offer year after year.

Hebrews 7:15

And this becomes clearer if another priest like Melchizedek appears,

Hebrews 7:17

For it has been testified: You are a priest for ever according to the order of Melchizedek.   ,

Hebrews 7:21

but he became a priest with an oath made by the one who said to him: The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest for ever.’   ,

Hebrews 7:28

For the law appoints as high priests men who are weak, but the promise of the oath, which came after the law, appoints a Son,  who has been perfected  for ever.

Hebrews 7:3

Without father, mother, or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God,  he remains a priest for ever.

Hebrews 9:14

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit  offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse our  consciences from dead works so that we can serve the living God?

Revelation 1:18

and the Living One.   I was dead, but look #– #I am alive for ever and ever,   and I hold the keys   of death and Hades.