For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Hebrews 7:16 - Revised Version 1885 who hath been made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, 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 carnal, sold under sin.
So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:
but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known of God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?
having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;
If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,
For the law having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things, they can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh.
And what we say is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there ariseth another priest,
for it is witnessed of him, Thou art a priest for ever After the order of Melchizedek.
(for they indeed have been made priests without an oath; but he with an oath by him that saith of him, The Lord sware and will not repent himself, Thou art a priest for ever);
For the law appointeth men high priests, having infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was after the law, appointeth a Son, perfected for evermore.
without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like unto the Son of God), abideth a priest continually.
how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
and the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.