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 verily a disannulling of the preceding commandment on account of its weakness and unprofitableness.
Hebrews 8:7
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then would no place have been sought for the second.
Hebrews 10:1
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers to them perfect.
Galatians 2:21
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness is attainable by the law, then Christ hath died in vain.
Galatians 4:3
Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
Colossians 2:10
And ye are complete in him, who is the head of all principality and power:
What
Hebrews 7:26
For such a high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
Another
Hebrews 7:15
And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,
Hebrews 5:6
As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
Hebrews 6:20
Whither the forerunner hath for us entered, even Jesus, made a high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
General references
Numbers 20:26
And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered to his people, and shall die there.