Hebrews 7:18
For, indeed, there is a setting aside of the preceding commandment, because it was weak and unprofitable,
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
17Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchisedec.
Cross References
Acts 13:39and by him, every one that believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Romans 8:3For what the law could not do, because it was weak through the flesh, God has done, who, sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for a sin-offering, condemned sin in the flesh,
Galatians 3:17And this I affirm, that the covenant which had been before confirmed by God with respect to Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, could not annul so as to make the promise of no effect.
Galatians 4:21Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, do you not understand the law?
Hebrews 7:11If, then, there had been a perfect expiation by means of the Levitical priesthood, (for with reference to it, the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should be raised up after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
Hebrews 8:7For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for a second.
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 7:12-28
Melchisedec and Christ Compared. ( a. d. 62.) 11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron? 12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. 13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar. 14 For it is evident that… Read the whole commentary →