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
On the one hand a former command is set aside because it is weak and useless,
Hebrews 8:7
For if that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one.
Hebrews 10:1
For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.
Galatians 2:21
I do not set aside God's grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!
Galatians 4:3
So also we, when we were minors, were enslaved under the basic forces of the world.
Colossians 2:10
and you have been filled in him, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
What
Hebrews 7:26
For it is indeed fitting for us to have such a high priest: holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
Another
Hebrews 7:15
And this is even clearer if another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,
Hebrews 5:6
as also in another place God says, "You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek."
Hebrews 6:20
where Jesus our forerunner entered on our behalf, since he became a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.
General references
Numbers 20:26
Remove Aaron's priestly garments and put them on Eleazar his son, and Aaron will be gathered to his ancestors and will die there."