Hebrews 7:8

American Standard Version (1901)

And here men that die receive tithes; but there one, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.

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whither as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

as he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever After the order of Melchizedek.

and the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

And they indeed have been made priests many in number, because that by death they are hindered from continuing:

Yet a little while, and the world beholdeth me no more; but ye behold me: because I live, ye shall live also.

For who, when they heard, did provoke? nay, did not all they that came out of Egypt by Moses?

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.

And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgment;

But without any dispute the less is blessed of the better.

And, so to say, through Abraham even Levi, who receiveth tithes, hath paid tithes;