Hebrews 7:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life but resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest forever.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Without [record of] father or mother or ancestral line, neither with beginning of days nor ending of life, but, resembling the Son of God, he continues to be a priest without interruption and without successor.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like unto the Son of God), abideth a priest continually.

Common English Bible

³ He is without father or mother or any family. He has no beginning or end of life, but he’s like God’s Son and remains a priest for all time.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life, he is thereby likened to the Son of God, who remains a priest continuously.

Hebrews 7:3 Cross References

Hebrews 7:17

For it is attested of him, “You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.”

Hebrews 7:6

But this man, who does not belong to their ancestry, collected tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had received the promises.

Matthew 4:3

The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.”

Exodus 6:18

The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, and the length of Kohath’s life was one hundred thirty-three years.

Numbers 1:18

and on the first day of the second month they assembled the whole congregation together. They registered themselves in their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names from twenty years old and up, individually,

Hebrews 4:14

Since, then, we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession.

Hebrews 7:1

This “Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham as he was returning from defeating the kings and blessed him,”

Hebrews 7:2

and to him Abraham apportioned “one-tenth of everything.” His name, in the first place, means “king of righteousness”; next, he is also king of Salem, that is, “king of peace.”