Hebrews 7:16
one who has become a priest, not through a legal requirement concerning physical descent, but through the power of an endless life.
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
In Context
15Now this point becomes even more clear when there arises another priest like Melchizedek,
17For God testifies, “Yoʋ are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”
Cross References
Galatians 4:3In the same way also, when we were children, we were enslaved to the elements of the world.
Colossians 2:14by blotting out the certificate of debt that stood against us with its legal demands; he took it away by nailing it to the cross.
Hebrews 7:3He is without father, without mother, and without genealogy; there is no beginning to his days or end to his life. But resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest forever.
Hebrews 7:21but Jesus was made a priest with an oath by the one who said to him, “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, ‘Yoʋ are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.’”
Hebrews 7:28For the law appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son, who has been made perfect forever.
Hebrews 10:1Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of those things, the same sacrifices offered year after year can never perfect those who draw near to worship.
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 →