Hebrews 7:11

American King James Version (1999)

If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

Cross References

Galatians 2:21

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

Galatians 4:3

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

Galatians 4:9

But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn you again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto you desire again to be in bondage?

Hebrews 5:10

Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.

Hebrews 5:6

As he said also in another place, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

Hebrews 6:20

Where the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

Hebrews 7:10

For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.

Hebrews 7:12

For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

Hebrews 7:13

For he of whom these things are spoken pertains to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.

Hebrews 7:15

And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there rises another priest,

Hebrews 7:21

(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said to him, The Lord swore and will not repent, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)

Hebrews 8:7

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

Hebrews 9:6

Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.