G2596–κατά–kata

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

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

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For when God gave the promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself,

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For men swear by what is greater than themselves; and with them an oath in confirmation of a statement always puts an end to a dispute.

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where Jesus has entered as a forerunner on our behalf, having become, like Melchizedek, a High Priest for ever.

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And those of the descendants of Levi who receive the priesthood are authorized by the Law to take tithes from the people, that is, from their brethren, though these have sprung from Abraham.

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Now if the crowning blessing was attainable by means of the Levitical priesthood--for as resting on this foundation the people received the Law, to which they are still subject-- what further need was there for a Priest of a different kind to be rais

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And this is still more abundantly clear when we read that it is as belonging to the order of Melchizedek that a priest of a different kind is to arise,

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and hold His office not in obedience to any temporary Law, but by virtue of an indestructible Life.

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

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And since it was not without an oath being taken--

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for these men hold office without any oath having been taken, but He holds it attested by an oath from Him who said to Him, "The Lord has sworn and will not recall His words, Thou art a Priest for ever" --

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so much the more also is the Covenant of which Jesus has become the guarantor, a better covenant.

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who, unlike other High Priests, is not under the necessity of offering up sacrifices day after day, first for His own sins, and afterwards for those of the people; for this latter thing He did once for all when He offered up Himself.

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If then He were still on earth, He would not be a priest at all, since here there are already those who present the offerings in obedience to the Law,

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and serve a copy and type of the heavenly things, just as Moses was divinely instructed when about to build the tabernacle. For God said, "See that you make everything in imitation of the pattern shown you on the mountain."

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a Covenant unlike the one which I made with their forefathers on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out from the land of Egypt; for they would not remain faithful to that.' `So I turned from them,' says the Lord.

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And above the ark were the Cherubim denoting God's glorious presence and overshadowing the Mercy-seat. But I cannot now speak about all these in detail.

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And this is a figure--for the time now present--answering to which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, unable though they are to give complete freedom from sin to him who ministers.

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For when Moses had proclaimed to all the people every commandment contained in the Law, he took the blood of the calves and of the goats and with them water, scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

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Indeed we may almost say that in obedience to the Law everything is sprinkled with blood, and that apart from the outpouring of blood there is no remission of sins.

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Nor did He enter for the purpose of many times offering Himself in sacrifice, just as the High Priest enters the Holy place, year after year, taking with him blood not his own.

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And since it is reserved for all mankind once to die, and afterwards to be judged;

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For, since the Law exhibits only an outline of the blessings to come and not a perfect representation of the things themselves, the priests can never, by repeating the same sacrifices which they continually offer year after year, give complete freedom f

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But in those sacrifices sins are recalled to memory year after year.

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