Hebrews 5:6

as also in another passage He says, "Thou art a priest for ever, belonging to the order of Melchizedek."

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

In Context

5So Christ also did not claim for Himself the honour of being made High Priest, but was appointed to it by Him who said to Him, "My Son art Thou: I have to-day become Thy Father;"

7For Jesus during his earthly life offered up prayers and entreaties, crying aloud and weeping as He pleaded with Him who was able to bring Him in safety out of death, and He was delivered from the terror from which He shrank.

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Cross References

Hebrews 5:10For God Himself addresses Him as a High Priest for ever, belonging to the order of Melchizedek.

Hebrews 7:3with 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 God--this man Melchizedek remains a priest for ever.

Hebrews 7:17For the words are in evidence, "Thou art a priest for ever, belonging to the order of Melchizedek."

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 5:2-10

The Priesthood of Christ. ( a. d. 62.) 1 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: 2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity. 3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins. 4 And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron. 5 So also Christ… Read the whole commentary →

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