Hebrews 7:16

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

He was made a priest, but not because he met the requirement of being born into the right family. He became a priest by the power of a life that will never end.

Cross References

Colossians 2:20

You died with Christ and were made free from the powers that influence this world. So why do you act as if you still belong to the world? I mean, why do you follow rules like these:

Revelation 1:18

I am the one who lives. I was dead, but look, I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.

Hebrews 10:1

The law gave us only an unclear picture of the good things coming in the future. The law is not a perfect picture of the real things. The law tells people to offer the same sacrifices every year. Those who come to worship God continue to offer those sacrifices. But the law can never make them perfect.

Hebrews 7:28

The law chooses high priests who are men and have the same weaknesses that all people have. But after the law, God spoke the oath that made his Son high priest. And that Son, made perfect through suffering, will serve forever.

Hebrews 7:3

No one knows who his father or mother was or where he came from. And no one knows when he was born or when he died. Melchizedek is like the Son of God in that he will always be a priest.

Colossians 2:14

Because we broke God’s laws, we owed a debt—a debt that listed all the rules we failed to follow. But God forgave us of that debt. He took it away and nailed it to the cross.

Galatians 4:9

But now you know the true God. Really, though, it is God who knows you. So why do you turn back to the same kind of weak and useless rules you followed before? Do you want to be slaves to those things again?

Galatians 4:3

It is the same for us. We were once like children, slaves to the useless rules of this world.

Hebrews 7:21

But Christ became a priest with God’s oath. God said to him, “The Lord has made a promise with an oath and will not change his mind: ‘You are a priest forever.’” Psalm 110:4

Hebrews 7:17

This is what the Scriptures say about him: “You are a priest forever—the kind of priest Melchizedek was.”

Romans 7:14

We know that the law is spiritual, but I am not. I am so human. Sin rules me as if I were its slave.

Hebrews 7:15

And these things become even clearer when we see that another priest has come who is like Melchizedek.

Hebrews 9:14

So surely the blood sacrifice of Christ can do much more. Christ offered himself through the eternal Spirit as a perfect sacrifice to God. His blood will make us completely clean from the evil we have done. It will give us clear consciences so that we can worship the living God.