Hebrews 7:8

Weymouth NT

Moreover here frail mortal men receive tithes: there one receives them about whom there is evidence that he is alive.

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Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me: because I live, you also shall live.

»I am the Way,« replied Jesus, »and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

For who were they that heard, and yet provoked God? Was it not the whole of the people who had come out of Egypt under the leadership of Moses?

as also in another passage He says, »Thou art a priest for ever, belonging to the order of Melchizedek.«

where Jesus has entered as a forerunner on our behalf, having become, like Melchizedek, a High Priest for ever.

And they have been appointed priests many in number, because death prevents their continuance in office:

And beyond all dispute it is always the inferior who is blessed by the superior.

And Levi too –if I may so speak– pays tithes through Abraham:

And since it is reserved for all mankind once to die, and afterwards to be judged;

I died; but I am now alive until the Ages of the Ages, and I have the keys of the gates of Death and of Hades!