Hebrews 7:16

New English Translation

who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent but by the power of an indestructible life.

Cross References

Romans 7:14

For we know that the law is spiritual – but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.

Galatians 4:3

So also we, when we were minors, were enslaved under the basic forces 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 worthless basic forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

Colossians 2:14

He has destroyed what was against us, a certificate of indebtedness expressed in decrees opposed to us. He has taken it away by nailing it to the cross.

Colossians 2:20

If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world?

Hebrews 10:1

For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.

Hebrews 7:15

And this is even clearer if another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,

Hebrews 7:17

For here is the testimony about him: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

Hebrews 7:21

but Jesus did so with a sworn affirmation by the one who said to him, “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever’” –

Hebrews 7:28

For the law appoints as high priests men subject to weakness, but the word of solemn affirmation that came after the law appoints a son made perfect forever.

Hebrews 7:3

Without father, without mother, without genealogy, he has neither beginning of days nor end of life but is like the son of God, and he remains a priest for all time.

Hebrews 9:14

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.

Revelation 1:18

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