Now if perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood (for on this basis the people received the law), why was there still need for another priest to appear—one in the order of Melchizedek and not in the order of Aaron?
For if that first covenant had been without fault, no place would have been sought for a second.
I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.
But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless p
For it is testified: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”
For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in
but Jesus became a priest with an oath by the One who said to Him: “The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind: ‘Yo
And in another passage God says: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”
And this point is even more clear if another priest like Melchizedek appears,
where Jesus our forerunner has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.
So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.
And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
and was designated by God as high priest in the order of Melchizedek.
For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifi