1Melchizedek was both king of Salem and priest of God Most High. He was the one who went out and gave Abraham his blessing, when Abraham returned from killing the kings.
4Notice how great Melchizedek is! Our famous ancestor Abraham gave him a tenth of what he had taken from his enemies.
5The Law teaches that even Abraham's descendants must give a tenth of what they possess. And they are to give this to their own relatives, who are the descendants of Levi and are priests.
12And when the rules for selecting a priest are changed, the Law must also be changed.
13The person we are talking about is our Lord, who came from a tribe that had never had anyone to serve as a priest at the altar.
14Everyone knows he came from the tribe of Judah, and Moses never said that priests would come from that tribe.
15All this becomes clearer, when someone who is like Melchizedek is appointed to be a priest.
16That person wasn't appointed because of his ancestors, but because his life can never end.
17The Scriptures say about him,
“You are a priest for ever,
just like Melchizedek.”
18In this way a weak and useless command was put aside,
19because the Law cannot make anything perfect. At the same time, we are given a much better hope, and it can bring us close to God.
20-21God himself made a promise when this priest was appointed. But he did not make a promise like this when the other priests were appointed. The promise he made is,
“I, the Lord, promise that you
will be a priest for ever!
And I will never
change my mind!”
22This means that Jesus guarantees us a better agreement with God.
23There have been a lot of other priests, and all of them have died.
24But Jesus will never die, and so he will be a priest for ever!
25He is for ever able to save the people he leads to God, because he always lives to speak to God for them.
26Jesus is the high priest we need. He is holy and innocent and faultless, and not at all like us sinners. Jesus is honoured above all beings in heaven,
27and he is better than any other high priest. Jesus doesn't need to offer sacrifices each day for his own sins and then for the sins of the people. He offered a sacrifice once for all, when he gave himself.Lv 9.7.
28The Law appoints priests who have weaknesses. But God's promise, which came later than the Law, appoints his Son. And he is the perfect high priest for ever.
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