Hebrews 7:16
who has become such, not according to the law of a transitory enactment, but according to the energy of an indissoluble life.
Montgomery New Testament
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
17For the words are in evidence, Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchisedek.
Cross References
Galatians 4:3So we Jews also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the empty externalities of the world.
Colossians 2:14blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that stood against us and was hostile to us, and took it out of our way, nailing it to his cross.
Hebrews 7:3without father or mother, without lineage, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest in perpetuity.
Hebrews 7:21For although those priests became such without an oath, He had an oath form God who said to him, The Lord hath sworn and will not change, Thou art a priest forever.
Hebrews 7:28For the Law appoints human beings to be high priests, men with all their weakness; but the word of the oath, which was later than the Law, appoints a Son, perfected forevermore.
Hebrews 10:1For the Law, being only a shadow of the good things to come, and not their very substance, its priests cannot with the same sacrifice which year after year they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.
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 →