For we know that the Torah is spiritual; but I am of the flesh, sold to sin.
Hebrews 7:16 - Tree of Life Version one made not by virtue of a Torah requirement of physical descent, but by virtue of the power of an indestructible 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 Torah is spiritual; but I am of the flesh, sold to sin.
So also, when we were underage, we were subservient to the basic principles of the world.
But now you have come to know God—or rather you have come to be known by God. So how can you turn back again to those weak and worthless principles? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?
He wiped out the handwritten record of debts with the decrees against us, which was hostile to us. He took it away by nailing it to the cross.
If you died with Messiah to the basic principles of the world, why—as though living in the world—do you subject yourselves to their rules?
The Torah has a shadow of the good things to come—not the form itself of the realities. For this reason it can never, by means of the same sacrifices they offer constantly year after year, make perfect those who draw near.
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.’”)
For the Torah appoints as kohanim g’dolim men who have weakness; but the word of the oath, which came after the Torah, appoints a Son—made perfect 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.
how much more will the blood of Messiah—who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God—cleanse our conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
and the One who lives. I was dead, but look—I am alive forever and ever! Moreover, I hold the keys of death and Sheol.