Hebrews 7:11

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?

Perfection

What

Hebrews 7:26

Another

Hebrews 7:15

Hebrews 5:6

Hebrews 6:20

Bible References

Perfection

For there is a setting aside of a foregoing commandment, because of its weakness and unprofitableness

For if the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need for a second.

For the Law, being only a shadow of the good things to come, and not their very substance, its priests cannot with the same sacrifice which year after year they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

I do not annul the grace of God; for if righteousness comes by way of the Law, then indeed Christ died Christ for nothing.

So we Jews also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the empty externalities of the world.

and in him you have your fulness, and he is the Lord of all the principalities and powers.

What

For we needed just such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens;

Another

And this is yet more abundantly clear if, after the likeness of Melchizedek, there arises another Priest,

and again, Thou art a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.

whither Jesus himself is entered as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.