Hebrews 7:16 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁶ 5 Whereby he is able also to save for ever them that come to God by him; always living to make intercession for us.

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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

2 For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inward man:

Galatians 4:3

2 Be ye as I, because I also am as you: brethren, I beseech you: you have not injured me at all.

Galatians 4:9

8 But be zealous for that which is good in a good thing always: and not only when I am present with you.

Colossians 2:14

3 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in superstition and humility, and not sparing the body; not in any honour to the filling of the flesh.

Colossians 2:20

For which things the wrath of God cometh upon the children of unbelief,

Hebrews 10:1

0 In the which will, we are sanctified by the oblation of the body of Jesus Christ once.

Hebrews 7:15

4 But this, for that he continueth for ever, hath an everlasting priesthood,

Hebrews 7:17

6 For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

Hebrews 7:21

A minister of the holies, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord hath pitched, and not man.

Hebrews 7:28

Not according to the testament which I made to their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt: because they continued not in my testament: and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

Hebrews 7:3

2 For the priesthood being translated, it is necessary that a translation also be made of the law.

Hebrews 9:14

3 It is necessary therefore that the patterns of heavenly things should be cleansed with these: but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

Revelation 1:18

He, that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches: To him, that overcometh, I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of my God.