Hebrews 7:8

New King James Version

Here mortal men receive tithes, but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives.

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where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

As He also says in another place: “You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek”;

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

Also there were many priests, because they were prevented by death from continuing.

“A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also.

For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses?

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,

Now beyond all contradiction the lesser is blessed by the better.

Even Levi, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham, so to speak,