Heb. 7:1‑10:39• 1For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, that met Abraham returning from smiting the kings, and blessed him;
2to whom also Abraham divided a tenth from all, first being interpreted King of righteousness, and then also King of Salem, which is peace,
3without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but assimilated to the Son of God, abideth a priest continuously.
4Now consider how great he [was] to whom the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth out of the spoils.
5And they indeed from among the sons of Levi that receive the priesthood have commandment to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is, from their brethren, though these have come out of the loins of Abraham;
6but he who hath no genealogy from them hath tithed Abraham, and hath blessed him that hath the promises.
7Now apart from all dispute the less is blessed by the better.
8And here dying men receive tithes, but there one witnessed of that he liveth;
9and, so to speak, through Abraham even Levi that receiveth tithes hath been tithed.
10For he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.
11If therefore perfection were through the Levitical priesthood, for [based] on it the people had the law, what further need that a different priest should arise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be said according to the order of Aaron?
12For the priesthood being changed there cometh of necessity a change of law also.
13For he of whom these things are said hath part in a different tribe from which no one hath attended to the altar;
14for [it is] evident beforehand that our Lord hath sprung out of Judah, as to which tribe Moses spoke nothing about priests.
15And it is yet more abundantly evident if according to the similitude of Melchizedek there ariseth a different priest
16who hath been made not according to law of fleshly commandment but according to power of indissoluble life.
17For the witness is, Thou [art] priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
18For there cometh a setting aside of foregoing commandment on account of its weakness and unprofitableness
19(for the law perfected nothing), and an introduction of a better hope through which we draw near to God.
20And by how much not apart from oath-swearing
21(for they indeed apart from oath-swearing are become priests, but he with oath-swearing by him that saith unto him, The Lord swore and will not repent, Thou [art] priest forever [according to the order of Melchizedek]
22by so much Jesus hath become surety of a better covenant.
23And they indeed are become many more priests, because by death they are hindered from continuing;
24but he because of his abiding forever hath the priesthood untransferable.
25Whence also he is able to save completely those that approach God through him, as ever living to intercede for them.
26For such a high priest became us, holy, guileless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and become higher than the heavens,
27who hath no need day by day as the high priests, first to offer up sacrifices for his own sins, then [for] those of the people; for this he did once for all when he offered up himself.
28For the law constituteth men high priests, having infirmity; but the word of the oath-swearing that [was] after the law, a Son perfected forever.
1Now a chief point [in connection] with the things said [is]: We have such a high priest who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
2minister of the holies and of the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched, not man.
3For every high priest is constituted for the offering both gifts and sacrifices, whence necessity [is] that he also have something which he may offer.
4If then indeed he were on earth, he would not even be a priest, as there are those that offer the gifts according to law;
5being such as serve for example and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses is oracularly told when about to make the tabernacle, for, See, saith he, thou shalt make all things according to the pattern that was shown to thee in the mountain.
6But now he hath obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is mediator of a better covenant which hath been enacted upon better promises.
7For if that first was faultless, no place had been sought for a second.
8For finding fault he saith to them, Behold, days come, saith Jehovah, and I will make a new covenant on the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
9not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in a day when I took their hand to lead them out of Egypt's land; because they continued not in my covenant, and I disregarded them, saith Jehovah.
10Because this [is] the covenant which I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith Jehovah, giving my laws into their mind, I will also write them upon their hearts, and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for people.
11And they shall not teach each his fellow-citizen and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord, because all shall inwardly know me from little of them unto great of them;
12because I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember more.
13In his saying, New, he hath made the first old; but that which groweth old and aged [is] near disappearing.
1The first then also had ordinances of service, and its sanctuary worldly.
2For a tabernacle was constituted, the first, in which [were] both the candlestick and the table and the setting forth of the loaves, which is called Holy;
3but after the second veil a tabernacle that is called Holy of holies,
4having a golden censer and the ark of the covenant covered round everywhere with gold, in which [were] a golden pot having the manna, and the rod of Aaron that sprouted, and the tables of the covenant,
5and above over it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat, concerning which things it is not now [opportune] to speak in detail.
6Now these things having been thus constituted, into the first tabernacle indeed the priests enter at all times accomplishing the services,
7but into the second the high priest alone once the year, not apart from blood, which he offereth for himself and for the errors of the people:
8the Holy Spirit showing this that the way of the holies hath not yet been manifested, while yet the first tabernacle hath a standing:
9the which [is] a parable for the time present, according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices, unable as to conscience to perfect the worshipper,
10only with meats and drinks and different washings, ordinances of flesh imposed until a season of rectification.
11But Christ having come high priest of the good things to come by the better and more perfect tabernacle, not handmade (that is, not of this creation),
12neither by blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, entered once for all into the holies, having found an everlasting redemption.
13For if the blood of goats and bulls and a heifer's ashes sprinkling the defiled sanctifieth for the purity of the flesh,
14by how much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who by [the] eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works to serve a living God?
15And for this reason he is mediator of a new covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those that are called might receive the promise of the everlasting inheritance.
16For where a testament [is], the death of the testator must be brought in;
17for a testament [is] valid after men [are] dead: since it in no wise hath force while the testator liveth.
18Whence neither the first hath been inaugurated without blood.
19For when every commandment was spoken according to law by Moses to all the people, having taken the blood of calves and of goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
20saying, This [is] the blood of the covenant which God enjoined on you.
21And the tabernacle too, and all the vessels of service he sprinkled alike with the blood;
22and almost all things are purified with blood according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding cometh no remission.
23Necessity therefore [was] that the examples of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
24For the Christ entered not into handmade holies, figures of the true, but into the heaven itself now to appear to the face of God for us;
25neither that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holies yearly with blood not his own,
26since he were bound often to suffer from [the] world's foundation. But now once on consummation of the ages he hath been manifested for putting away of sin by his sacrifice.
27And forasmuch as it is appointed to men once to die, and, after this, judgment;
28so also the Christ, having been once offered to bear sins of many, shall appear a second time apart from sin to those that look for him unto salvation.
1For the law, having a shadow of the coming good things, not the image itself of the things, can never by the same sacrifices, which they offer yearly continuously, perfect those that approach.
2Since would they not have ceased being offered on account of the worshippers once purified having no longer any conscience of sins?
3But in these [is] a calling to mind of sins yearly.
4For blood of bulls and goats [is] incapable of taking away sins.
5Wherefore entering into the world he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou willedst not, but a body thou preparedst for me:
6in whole burnt-offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hadst no pleasure.
7Then I said, Lo, I am come (in the book-roll it is written of me) to do thy will, O God.
8Above saying, Sacrifice and offering and whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou willedst not nor hadst pleasure in (the which are offered according to the law),
9then he hath said, Lo, I am come to do thy will. He taketh away the first that he may establish the second;
10by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11And every priest indeed standeth daily ministering and offering often the same sacrifices, the which can never take away sins;
12but he having offered one sacrifice for sins, continuously sat down on God's right hand,
13henceforth waiting until his enemies be set as footstool of his feet.
14For by one offering he hath perfected continuously the sanctified.
15And the Holy Spirit also witnesseth to us; for after he had said,
16This [is] the covenant which I will covenant unto them after those days, saith Jehovah, Giving my laws on their hearts, I will also write them on their understanding;
17and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember more.
18But where remission of these [is] [there is] no longer an offering for sin.
19Having therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holies by the blood of Jesus,
20a new and living way which he inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, his flesh,
21and [having] a great priest over the house of God,
22let us approach with true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from a wicked conscience, and our body washed with pure water.
23Let us hold fast the confession of the hope unwavering, for [he is] faithful that promised;
24and let us consider one another for provoking love and good works,
25not forsaking the gathering of ourselves together as [is] a custom for some, but encouraging, and by so much rather as ye see the day drawing near.
26For if we sin wilfully after receiving the full knowledge of the truth, there no longer remaineth a sacrifice for sins,
27but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and heat of fire about to devour the adversaries.
28Anyone if he set at nought Moses' law dieth apart from mercy on two or three witnesses:
29of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy that trod down the Son of God, and counted common the blood of the covenant whereby he was sanctified, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
30For we know him that said, To me [is] vengeance; I will recompense, saith Jehovah; and again, Jehovah shall judge his people.
31Fearful [it is] to fall into a living God's hands.
32But call to mind the former days, in which enlightened as ye were ye endured a great fight of afflictions,
33on this side made a spectacle in both reproaches and afflictions, and on that become companions of those so used;
34for ye both sympathised with prisoners and accepted with joy the plunder of your goods, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better and abiding substance.
35Cast not away therefore your confidence, the which hath great recompense.
36For ye have need of endurance, that having done the will of God ye may receive the promise.
37For yet a very little while: he that cometh will have come and will not delay.
38But the just shall live by faith; and if he draw back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.
39But we are not of drawing back unto perdition but of faith unto soul-saving. (Heb. 7:1‑10:39)