Hebrews 7:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ But this man, who does not belong to their ancestry, collected tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had received the promises.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ but he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ But this person who has not their Levitical ancestry received tithes from Abraham [himself] and blessed him who possessed the promises [of God].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ but he whose genealogy is not counted from them hath taken tithes of Abraham, and hath blessed him that hath the promises.

Common English Bible

⁶ But Melchizedek, who isn’t related to them, received a tenth of everything from Abraham and blessed the one who had received the promises.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ But this man, whose lineage is not enumerated with them, received tithes from Abraham, and he blessed even the one who held the promises.

Hebrews 7:6 Cross References

Romans 4:13

For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

Hebrews 11:17

By faith Abraham, when put to the test, offered up Isaac. He who had received the promises was ready to offer up his only son,

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,”

Galatians 3:16

Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring; it does not say, “And to offsprings,” as of many, but it says, “And to your offspring,” that is, to one person, who is Christ.

Romans 9:4

They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises;

Acts 3:25

You are the descendants of the prophets and of the covenant that God gave to your ancestors, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your descendants all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’

Genesis 12:2

I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Hebrews 11:13

All of these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them. They confessed that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth,

Genesis 12:13

Say you are my sister, so that it may go well with me because of you and that my life may be spared on your account.”

Hebrews 7:7

It is beyond dispute that the inferior is blessed by the superior.