Hebrews 7:11

The Passion Translation

If any of the Levitical priests who served under the law had the power to bring us into perfection, then why did God send Christ as Priest after the likeness of Melchizedek? He should have said, “After the likeness of Aaron.” –

Cross References

Galatians 2:21

So that is why I don’t view God’s grace as something peripheral. For if keeping the law could release God’s righteousness to us, then Christ would have died for nothing.

Galatians 4:3

So it is with us. When we were juveniles we were enslaved under the hostile spirits of the world.

Galatians 4:9

But now that we truly know him and are intimately known by him, why would we for a moment consider turning back to those weak and feeble principles of religion, as though we were still subject to them?

Hebrews 5:10

For God has designated him as the King-Priest who is over the priestly order of Melchizedek.

Hebrews 5:6

And in another Scripture he says about this new priestly order, “You are a Priest like Melchizedek, a King-Priest forever!”

Hebrews 6:20

and where Jesus, our forerunner, has gone in before us. He is now and forever our royal Priest like Melchizedek.

Hebrews 7:10

For although Levi was yet unborn, the seed from which Levi came was present in Abraham when he paid his tithe to Melchizedek. –

Hebrews 7:12

And furthermore, for God to send a new and different rank of priest, meant a new law would have had to be instituted even to allow it!

Hebrews 7:13

Yet the One these things all point to, was from a different tribe and no one from that tribe ever officiated at God’s altar,

Hebrews 7:15

And all this is made even clearer if there was another King-Priest raised up with the rank of Melchizedek.

Hebrews 7:21

but with Jesus, God affirmed his royal-priesthood with his promise, saying, The Lord has made a solemn oath and will never change his mind, “You are a King-Priest forever!”

Hebrews 8:7

For if that first covenant had been faultless no one would have needed a second one to replace it.

Hebrews 9:6

So with this prescribed pattern of worship the priests would routinely go in and out of the first chamber to perform their religious duties.