Adonai has sworn, and will not change His mind: “You are a Kohen forever according to the order of Melechizedek .”
Hebrews 5:6 - Tree of Life Version And He says in a different passage, “You are a kohen forever, according to the order of Melechizedek .” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever After the order of Melchisedec. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition As He says also in another place, You are a Priest [appointed] forever after the order (with the rank) of Melchizedek. [Ps. 110:4.] American Standard Version (1901) as he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever After the order of Melchizedek. Common English Bible as he also says in another place, “You are a priest forever, ” “according to the order of Melchizedek.” Catholic Public Domain Version And similarly, he says in another place: "You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version As he saith also in another place: Thou art a priest for ever, according to the order of Melchisedech. |
Adonai has sworn, and will not change His mind: “You are a Kohen forever according to the order of Melechizedek .”
Yeshua has entered there as a forerunner on our behalf, having become Kohen Gadol “forever, according to the order of Melechizedek .”
Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for based on it the people had been given the Torah), what further need was there for a different kohen to arise—designated according to the order of Melechizedek , not according to the order of Aaron?
And it is even more evident, if another kohen arises like Melechizedek —
For it is testified, “You are a kohen forever, according to the order of Melechizedek .”
but He with an oath—sworn by the One who said to Him, “Adonai has sworn and will not change His mind, ‘You are a kohen forever.’”)
Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life but made like Ben-Elohim, he remains a kohen for all time.
In one case, dying men receive tithes; but in the other, one about whom it is testified that he lives on.