Add parallel Print Page Options

15 You can understand it even better when another priest comes who is like Melchizedek.

16 He was not made a priest by law. The law said that the priest must come from a certain tribe. But he was made a priest because he has power to live for ever.

17 This is what the holy writings say about him, `You are a priest for ever, like Melchizedek.'

Read full chapter

15 And what we have said is even more clear if another priest like Melchizedek appears, 16 one who has become a priest not on the basis of a regulation as to his ancestry but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life. 17 For it is declared:

“You are a priest forever,
    in the order of Melchizedek.”[a](A)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 7:17 Psalm 110:4