Hebrews 7:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But this man, who does not belong to their ancestry, collected tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had received the promises.

Cross References

Genesis 12:13

Say you are my sister, so that it may go well with me because of you and that my life may be spared on your account.”

Genesis 12:2

I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Acts 3:25

You are the descendants of the prophets and of the covenant that God gave to your ancestors, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your descendants all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’

Romans 4:13

For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

Romans 9:4

They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises;

Galatians 3:16

Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring; it does not say, “And to offsprings,” as of many, but it says, “And to your offspring,” that is, to one person, who is Christ.

Hebrews 11:13

All of these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them. They confessed that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth,

Hebrews 11:17

By faith Abraham, when put to the test, offered up Isaac. He who had received the promises was ready to offer up his only son,

Hebrews 7:1

This “Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham as he was returning from defeating the kings and blessed him,”

Hebrews 7:7

It is beyond dispute that the inferior is blessed by the superior.