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
Bible References
Perfection
Hebrews 7:18
So an earlier regulation is abrogated because it was poor and ineffective
Hebrews 8:7
For if that first agreement had been perfect, there would have been no occasion for a second one.
Hebrews 10:1
For while the Law foreshadowed the blessings that were to come, it did not fully express them, and so the priests by offering the same sacrifices endlessly year after year cannot wholly free those who come to worship from their sins.
Galatians 2:21
I refuse to nullify the mercy of God. For if uprightness could be secured through law, then Christ died for nothing!
Galatians 4:3
So when we were minors, we were slaves to material ways of looking at things,
Colossians 2:10
and in union with him you too are filled with it. He is the head of all your principalities and dominions.
What
Hebrews 7:26
Such a high priest we needed??odly, blameless, unstained, removed from sinful men and raised above the very heavens;
Another
Hebrews 7:15
The point is still more clear in view of the fact that the appointment of the new priest resembles that of Melchizedek,
Hebrews 5:6
For he says in another passage, "You are a priest forever of the priesthood of Melchizedek."
Hebrews 6:20
where Jesus has gone ahead of us, and become forever a high priest of the priesthood of Melchizedek.