Hebrews 7:16

New American Bible - revised edition

who has become so, not by a law expressed in a commandment concerning physical descent but by the power of a life that cannot be destroyed.

Cross References

Romans 7:14

We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold into slavery to sin.

Galatians 4:3

In the same way we also, when we were not of age, were enslaved to the elemental powers of the world.

Galatians 4:9

but now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and destitute elemental powers? Do you want to be slaves to them all over again?

Colossians 2:14

obliterating the bond against us, with its legal claims, which was opposed to us, he also removed it from our midst, nailing it to the cross;

Colossians 2:20

If you died with Christ to the elemental powers of the world, why do you submit to regulations as if you were still living in the world?

Hebrews 10:1

Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of them, it can never make perfect those who come to worship by the same sacrifices that they offer continually each year.

Hebrews 7:15

It is even more obvious if another priest is raised up after the likeness of Melchizedek,

Hebrews 7:17

For it is testified: “You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”

Hebrews 7:21

but he with an oath, through the one who said to him: “The Lord has sworn, and he will not repent: ‘You are a priest forever’”—

Hebrews 7:28

For the law appoints men subject to weakness to be high priests, but the word of the oath, which was taken after the law, appoints a son, who has been made perfect forever.

Hebrews 7:3

Without father, mother, or ancestry, without beginning of days or end of life, thus made to resemble the Son of God, he remains a priest forever.

Hebrews 9:14

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.

Revelation 1:18

the one who lives. Once I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever. I hold the keys to death and the netherworld.