I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Messiah died for nothing!*
Hebrews 7:11 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the Torah), what further need was there for another Kohen to arise after the order of Malki-Tzedek, and not be called after the order of Aharon? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Now if perfection (a perfect fellowship between God and the worshiper) had been attainable by the Levitical priesthood–for under it the people were given the Law–why was it further necessary that there should arise another and different kind of Priest, one after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one appointed after the order and rank of Aaron? American Standard Version (1901) Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it hath the people received the law), what further need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be reckoned after the order of Aaron? Common English Bible So if perfection came through the levitical office of priest (for the people received the Law under the priests), why was there still a need to speak about raising up another priest according to the order of Melchizedek rather than one according to the order of Aaron? Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, if consummation had occurred through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), then what further need would there be for another Priest to rise up according to the order of Melchizedek, one who was not called according to the order of Aaron? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If then perfection was by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise according to the order of Melchisedech, and not be called according to the order of Aaron? |
I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Messiah died for nothing!*
So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.
But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
As he says also in another place, *You are a Kohen forever, after the order of Malki-Tzedek.*
where as a forerunner Yeshua entered for us, having become a Kohen Gadol forever after the order of Malki-Tzedek.
For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the Torah.
For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar.
This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Malki-Tzedek there arises another Kohen,
(for they indeed have been made Kohanim without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him, *The Lord swore and will not change his mind, 'You are a Kohen forever, according to the order of Malki-Tzedek.'*
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.
Now these things having been thus prepared, the Kohanim go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,