Hebrews 7:16 - English Standard Version 2016

¹⁶ who has become a priest, not on the basis of a legal requirement concerning bodily descent, but by 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 under sin.

Galatians 4:3

In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.

Galatians 4:9

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?

Colossians 2:14

by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.

Colossians 2:20

If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations—

Hebrews 10:1

For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.

Hebrews 7:15

This becomes even more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,

Hebrews 7:17

For it is witnessed of him, “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.”

Hebrews 7:21

but this one was made a priest with an oath by the one who said to him: “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever.’”

Hebrews 7:28

For the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever.

Hebrews 7:3

He is without father or mother or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever.

Hebrews 9:14

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

Revelation 1:18

and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.