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Hebrews 7:16

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

and that he was appointed, not under a Law regulating only earthly matters, but by virtue of a life beyond the reach of death;

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We know that the Law is spiritual, but I am earthly-sold into slavery to Sin.

And so is it with us; when we were under age, as it were, we were slaves to the puerile teaching of this world;

But now that you have found God--or, rather, have been found by him--how is it that you are turning back to that poor and feeble puerile teaching, to which yet once again you are wanting to become slaves?

He canceled the bond which stood against us--the bond that consisted of ordinances--and which was directly hostile to us! He has taken it out of our way by nailing it to the cross!

Since, with Christ, you became dead to the puerile teaching of this world, why do you submit, as though your life were still that of the world,

The Law, though able to foreshadow the Better System which was coming, never had its actual substance. Its priests, with those sacrifices which they offer continuously year after year, can never make those who come to worship perfect.

All this becomes even yet plainer when we remember that a new priest has appeared, resembling Melchizedek,

for that is the meaning of the declaration-- 'Thou art for all time a priest of the order of Melchizedek.'

but his appointment was ratified by an oath, when God said to him-- 'The Lord has sworn, and will not change, "Thou art a priest for all time."'

The Law appoints as High Priests men who are liable to infirmity, but the words of God's oath, which was later than the Law, name the Son as, for all time, the perfect Priest.

There is no record of his father, or mother, or lineage, nor again of any beginning of his days, or end of his life. In this he resembles the Son of God, and stands before us as a priest whose priesthood is continuous.

how much more will the blood of the Christ, who, through his eternal Spirit, offered himself up to God, as a victim without blemish, purify our consciences from a lifeless formality, and fit us for the service of the Living God!

the Everliving. I died, and I am alive for ever and ever. And I hold the keys of the Grave and of the Place of the Dead.




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