For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
Hebrews 7:16 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) who has been made, not after the Torah of a fleshly mitzvah, but after the power of an endless life: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Who has been constituted a Priest, not on the basis of a bodily legal requirement [an externally imposed command concerning His physical ancestry], but on the basis of the power of an endless and indestructible Life. American Standard Version (1901) who hath been made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life: Common English Bible He has become a priest by the power of a life that can’t be destroyed, rather than a legal requirement about physical descent. Catholic Public Domain Version who was made, not according to the law of a carnal commandment, but according to the virtue of an indissoluble life. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Who is made not according to the law of a carnal commandment, but according to the power of an indissoluble life: |
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
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?
wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;
If you died with Messiah from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
For the Torah, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.
This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Malki-Tzedek there arises another Kohen,
for it is testified, *You are a Kohen forever, according to the order of Malki-Tzedek.*
(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 the Torah appoints men as Kohenim Gedolim who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the Torah appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.
without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a Kohen continually.
how much more will the blood of Messiah, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amein. I have the keys of Death and of She'ol.