Hebrews 7:21

New Century Version

but Christ became a priest with God’s oath. God said: “The Lord has made a promise and will not change his mind. ‘You are a priest forever.’ ”

Cross References

Psalm 110:4

The Lord has made a promise and will not change his mind. He said, “You are a priest forever, a priest like Melchizedek.”

Numbers 23:19

God is not a human being, and he will not lie. He is not a human, and he does not change his mind. What he says he will do, he does. What he promises, he makes come true.

Romans 11:29

God never changes his mind about the people he calls and the things he gives them.

Hebrews 5:6

And in another Scripture God says, “You are a priest forever, a priest like Melchizedek.”

Hebrews 7:17

It is said about him, “You are a priest forever, a priest like Melchizedek.”

Hebrews 7:20

It is important that God did this with an oath. Others became priests without an oath,

Hebrews 7:23

When one of the other priests died, he could not continue being a priest. So there were many priests.

Hebrews 7:28

The law chooses high priests who are people with weaknesses, but the word of God’s oath came later than the law. It made God’s Son to be the high priest, and that Son has been made perfect forever.

1 Samuel 15:29

The Lord is the Eternal One of Israel. He does not lie or change his mind. He is not a human being, so he does not change his mind.