Hebrews 7:16

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someone who has become a priest not because of a rule about his family line but because of the power of a life that can never be destroyed.

Cross References

Colossians 2:20

Some people still follow the basic spiritual powers of the world. But you died with Christ as far as those powers are concerned. So why do you act as if you still belonged to the world? You’re following rules such as,

Revelation 1:18

the Living One. I was dead, but now look! I’m alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys to death and Hades.

Hebrews 10:1

The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming. It’s not the real things themselves. That’s why the law can never, through the same sacrifices that are repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect the people who come near to worship.

Hebrews 7:28

The law appoints men who are weak to be high priests. But after the law had been given, God swore an oath and appointed his Son, who has been made perfect forever.

Hebrews 7:3

Melchizedek has no father or mother or family line. His life has no beginning or ending. He remains a priest forever, like the Son of God.

Colossians 2:14

and cancelled the debt that the law said we owed. That debt counted against us and made us guilty, but God took it away and nailed it to the cross.

Galatians 4:9

But now you do know God. Even better, God knows you. So why are you turning back to those weak and worthless powers? Do you want to be slaves to them all over again?

Galatians 4:3

It’s the same with us. When we were children, we were slaves to the basic spiritual powers of the world.

Hebrews 7:21

But when Jesus became a priest, God confirmed this with an oath when he said to him, “The Lord has sworn an oath and he won’t change his mind. He has said, ‘You are a priest forever.’ ”

Hebrews 7:17

Scripture says, “You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.”

Romans 7:14

We know that the law is spiritual. But I am unspiritual. I have been sold as a slave to sin.

Hebrews 7:15

What we’re saying becomes even more clear if another priest like Melchizedek appears,

Hebrews 9:14

So how much cleaner will the blood of Christ make us! He offered himself to God without any flaw through the power of the eternal Holy Spirit. His blood washes away our feelings of guilt for committing sin. Sin always leads to death. But now we can serve the living God.