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Hebrews 7:16

James Moffatt - New Testament

one who has become a priest by the power of an indissoluble Life and not by the law of an external command;

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As you died with Christ to the Elemental spirits of the world, why live as if you still belonged to the world? Why submit to rules and regulations like

I was dead and here I am alive for evermore, holding the keys that unlock death and Hades.

For as the Law has a mere shadow of the bliss that is to be, instead of representing the reality of that bliss, it never can perfect those who draw near with the same annual sacrifices that are perpetually offered.

For the Law appoints human beings in their weakness to the priesthood; but the word of the Oath appoints a Son who is made perfect for ever.

He has neither father nor mother nor genealogy, neither a beginning to his days nor an end of his life, but, resembling the Son of God, continues to be priest permanently.

He cancelled the regulations that stood against us — all these obligations he set aside when he nailed them to the cross,

but now that you know God — or rather, are known by God — how is it you are turning back again to the weakness and poverty of the Elemental spirits? Why do you want to be enslaved all over again by them?

So with us. When we were under age, we lived under the thraldom of the Elemental spirits of the world;

Previous priests became priests apart from any oath, but he has an oath from Him who said to him, The Lord has sworn, and he will not change his mind, thou art a priest for ever.

for the witness to him is, Thou art priest for ever, with the rank of Melchizedek.

The Law is spiritual; we know that. But then I am a creature of the flesh, in the thraldom of sin.

This becomes all the more plain when another priest emerges resembling Melchizedek,

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who in the spirit of the eternal offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve a living God?




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