These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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Hebrews 7
Brit Hadashah 28 verses
- 1 For this man, , King of Salem and of the Most High —he who when was returning after defeating the kings met him and pronounced a on him—
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to whom also presented a tenth part of all—being first, as his signifies, King of , and secondly King of Salem, that is, King of :
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1 Samuel 8:15 2 Samuel 23:3 1 Samuel 8:17 Numbers 18:21 Genesis 28:22 Psalm 85:10-11 2 Samuel 8:15 1 Kings 4:24-25 Psalm 72:1-3 Leviticus 27:32 Psalm 45:4-7 Psalm 72:7 1 Chronicles 22:9 Jeremiah 23:5-6 Micah 5:5 Romans 3:26 Isaiah 9:6-7 Luke 2:14 Jeremiah 33:15-16 Romans 5:1-2 Ephesians 2:14-18 Isaiah 45:22-25 Isaiah 32:1-2 -
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with no father or mother, and no record of ancestry: having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made a type of the Son of —this man remains a for ever.
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Now think how great this - must have been to whom the patriarch gave a tenth part of the best of the spoil.
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- 5 And those of the descendants of who receive the are authorized by the Law to take tithes from the people, that is, from their brethren, though these have sprung from .
- 6 But, in this instance, one who does not trace his origin from them takes tithes from , and pronounces a on him to whom the promises belong.
- 7 And beyond all dispute it is always the inferior who is blessed by the superior.
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Moreover here frail mortal men receive tithes: there one receives them about whom there is evidence that he is alive.
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And too—if I may so speak—pays tithes through :
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for was yet in the loins of his forefather when met .
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- 11 Now if the crowning was attainable by means of the Levitical —for as resting on this foundation the people received the Law, to which they are still subject—what further need was there for a Priest of a different kind to be raised up belonging to the order of instead of being said to belong to the order of ?
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For when the changes, a change of Law also of necessity takes place.
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He, however, to whom that prophecy refers is associated with a different tribe, not one member of which has anything to do with the .
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- 14 For it is undeniable that our Lord sprang from , a tribe of which said nothing in connection with priests.
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And this is still more abundantly clear when we read that it is as belonging to the order of that a of a different kind is to arise,
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- 16 and hold His office not in obedience to any temporary Law, but by virtue of an indestructible Life.
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For the words are in evidence, “Thou art a for ever, belonging to the order of .”
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- 18 On the one hand we have here the abrogation of an earlier code because it was weak and ineffective—
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for the Law brought no —but on the other hand we have the bringing in of a new and better by means of which we draw near to .
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- 20 And since it was not without an oath being taken—
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for these men hold office without any oath having been taken, but He holds it attested by an oath from Him who said to Him, “The Lord has sworn and will not recall His words, Thou art a Priest for ever”—
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- 22 so much the more also is the Covenant of which has become the guarantor, a better .
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And they have been appointed priests many in number, because death prevents their continuance in office:
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but He, because He continues for ever, has a which does not pass to any successor.
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Hence too He is able to to the uttermost those who come to through Him, seeing that He ever lives to plead for them.
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Romans 8:34 1 John 2:1-2 John 14:6 Hebrews 7:19 Romans 5:2 1 Timothy 2:5 John 14:13 Hebrews 2:18 Hebrews 5:7 John 14:16 Ephesians 2:18 Hebrews 13:15 Ephesians 3:12 Isaiah 53:12 Jude 1:24 Hebrews 9:24 Hebrews 7:16 John 17:9-26 Isaiah 63:1 Daniel 6:20 John 5:37-40 Isaiah 59:16 Ephesians 3:20 John 16:23-24 Jeremiah 3:22 Revelation 8:3-4 Daniel 3:17 Isaiah 45:22 2 Timothy 1:12 Job 23:3 Hebrews 11:6 Daniel 3:15 Daniel 9:16 Hebrews 7:24 John 10:29-30 Isaiah 45:24 Daniel 3:29 Psalm 68:31-32 Philippians 3:21 Hebrews 7:8 Job 22:17 -
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Moreover we needed just such a High Priest as this—, guileless, undefiled, far removed from sinful men and exalted above the ;
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Hebrews 8:1 Hebrews 4:14-15 2 Corinthians 5:21 1 John 3:5 1 Peter 2:22 Philippians 2:9-11 Hebrews 2:10 Hebrews 1:3 Isaiah 53:9 Ephesians 4:8-10 Hebrews 9:23-26 Luke 23:47 Acts 3:14 Exodus 28:36 Psalm 68:18 Luke 24:46 Hebrews 7:11 John 8:29 Hebrews 12:2 Acts 4:27 Hebrews 9:14 Ephesians 1:20-22 Mark 16:19 Luke 23:22 Matthew 27:18 1 Peter 3:22 Luke 24:26 Luke 23:41 1 John 2:2 Luke 1:35 John 14:30 1 Peter 1:19 Hebrews 10:11-22 Revelation 1:17-18 Revelation 3:7 -
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who, unlike other High Priests, is not under the necessity of up sacrifices day after day, first for His own sins, and afterwards for those of the people; for this latter thing He did once for all when He offered up Himself.
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- 28 For the Law constitutes men High Priests—men with all their infirmity—but the utterance of the oath, which came later than the Law, constitutes High Priest a Son who has been made for ever .