Hebrews 7:16

Modern English Version

who becomes a priest not by a law pertaining to ancestry, but by the power of an endless life.

Cross References

Colossians 2:20

Therefore, if you died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you subject yourself to legalistic rules?

Revelation 1:18

I am He who lives, though I was dead. Behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.

Hebrews 10:1

For the law is a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of those things. It could never by the same sacrifices, which they offer continually year after year, perfect those who draw near.

Hebrews 7:28

For the law appoints men who are weak as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints a Son who is made perfect forever.

Hebrews 7:3

Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he continually remains a priest.

Colossians 2:14

He blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us and contrary to us, and He took it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.

Galatians 4:9

But now, after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and worthless elemental forces to which you desire again to be in bondage?

Galatians 4:3

So when we were children, we were in bondage to the elements of the world.

Hebrews 7:21

(Other priests were made without an oath, but this One with an oath by the One who said to Him: “The Lord has sworn and will not relent, ‘You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.’ ” )

Hebrews 7:17

For He testifies: “You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.”

Romans 7:14

We know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.

Hebrews 7:15

This is far more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,

Hebrews 9:14

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?