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
On the one hand we have here the abrogation of an earlier code because it was weak and ineffective--
Hebrews 8:7
For if that first Covenant had been free from imperfection, there would have been no attempt to introduce another.
Hebrews 10:1
For, since the Law exhibits only an outline of the blessings to come and not a perfect representation of the things themselves, the priests can never, by repeating the same sacrifices which they continually offer year after year, give complete freedom from sin to those who draw near.
Galatians 2:21
I do not nullify the grace of God; for if acquittal from guilt is obtainable through the Law, then Christ has died in vain."
Galatians 4:3
So we also, when spiritually we were children, were subject to the world's rudimentary notions, and were enslaved.
Colossians 2:10
and He is the Lord of all princes and rulers.
What
Hebrews 7:26
Moreover we needed just such a High Priest as this--holy, guileless, undefiled, far removed from sinful men and exalted above the heavens;
Another
Hebrews 7:15
And this is still more abundantly clear when we read that it is as belonging to the order of Melchizedek that a priest of a different kind is to arise,
Hebrews 5:6
as also in another passage He says, "Thou art a priest for ever, belonging to the order of Melchizedek."
Hebrews 6:20
where Jesus has entered as a forerunner on our behalf, having become, like Melchizedek, a High Priest for ever.