Hebrews 7:18

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Hebrews 7:18

For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.

A disannulling

Galatians 3:15

The weakness

Bible References

A disannulling

If indeed therefore perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people had received the law), what further need is there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be designated

For if that first one was faultless, no place would have been sought for a second.

For the law having a shadow of the good things that are coming, not the same substance of the events, with the same sacrifices that are offered continually each year, they are never able to fully perfect those who are approaching.

Do we then make law void through faith? May it not happen! Instead, we establish law.

Brothers (I speak according to a man), in the same way of a man, no man annuls or adds to a contract that has been ratified.

The weakness

(for the law made nothing fully perfect), and an introduction of a better hope, through which we approach God.

For if that first one was faultless, no place would have been sought for a second.

Which is a figure for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices are offered that are not able to make the man officiating fully perfect in respect to conscience,

Be not carried away by various and foreign doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established with grace, not with foods by which those who walked were not benefited.

And from all things of which ye could not be make righteous by the Law of Moses, in this man every man who believes is made righteous.

For the impotence of the law, in that it was weak because of the flesh, God, having sent his own Son in a form of flesh of sin, and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh,

but now knowing God, but rather being known by God, how is it ye turn again to the weak and destitute elements to which ye desire again to be in bondage anew?

For bodily exercise is profitable for a little, but piety is profitable for all things, having promise of the present life, and of that which is coming.