Hebrews 7:16-18

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹⁶ Who has been constituted a Priest, not on the basis of a bodily legal requirement [an externally imposed command concerning His physical ancestry], but on the basis of the power of an endless and indestructible Life.

¹⁷ For it is witnessed of Him, You are a Priest forever after the order (with the rank) of Melchizedek.^(A)

¹⁸ So a previous physical regulation and command is cancelled because of its weakness and ineffectiveness and uselessness—