Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
What
Another
General references
Bible References
Perfection
Hebrews 7:18
For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness
Hebrews 8:7
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.
Hebrews 10:1
For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.
Galatians 2:21
I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"
Galatians 4:3
So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.
Colossians 2:10
and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;
What
Hebrews 7:26
For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
Another
Hebrews 7:15
This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest,
Hebrews 5:6
As he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek."
Hebrews 6:20
where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
General references
Numbers 20:26
and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered [to his people], and shall die there."