Hebrews 7:20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

This was confirmed with an oath, for others have become priests without an oath,

Cross References

Numbers 18:7

But you and your sons with you shall diligently perform your priestly duties in all that concerns the altar and the area behind the curtain. I give your priesthood as a gift; any outsider who approaches shall be put to death.”

Hebrews 5:6

as he says also in another place, “You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.”

Psalm 110:4

The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, “You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”

Hebrews 7:19

(for the law made nothing perfect); there is, on the other hand, the introduction of a better hope through which we approach God.

Hebrews 7:21

but this one became a priest with an oath because of the one who said to him, “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever’ ”