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Hebrews 7:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

In the one case, tithes are received by those who are mortal; in the other, by one of whom it is testified that he lives.

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In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live.

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

Now who were they who heard and rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?

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

where Jesus, a forerunner on our behalf, has entered, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

Furthermore, the former priests were many in number because they were prevented by death from continuing in office,

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

One might even say that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham,

And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once and after that the judgment,

and the Living One. I was dead, and see, I am alive forever and ever, and I have the keys of Death and of Hades.