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
For there is indeed a disannulling of the preceding command, on account of it's weakness and unprofitableness;
Hebrews 8:7
For if the first covenant had been unexceptionable, there had been no room for a second:
Hebrews 10:1
For the law having but a faint shadow of good things to come, and not the full image of the things, can never, even by the great annual sacrifices which they offer statedly, make the comers thereunto perfect.
Galatians 2:21
I do not frustate the grace of God: for if righteousness be by the law, then Christ died in vain.
Galatians 4:3
So we when we were children, were in servitude 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 an high-priest was meet for us, who was holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and higher than the heavens;
Another
Hebrews 7:15
And it is yet more abundantly evident, 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 Jesus our fore-runner is entered for us, being made an high-priest for ever, after the order of Melchisedec.