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 therefore there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood,??or the people received the law under it,??hat need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchisedec and not to be called after the order of Aaron?

For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for the second. [But it was not].

For the law having a shadow of the good things that were to come, not the very likeness of the things, could not by the sacrifices which they offered continually every year perfect the offerers;

Do we then abrogate the law by the faith? By no means; but we establish the law.

Brothers, I speak according to man. But no one abolishes a man's covenant when it is established, or makes additions to it.

The weakness

for the law made nothing perfect, but was the introduction of a better hope through which we draw nigh to God.

For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for the second. [But it was not].

which is a type of the time at hand, in which gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the worshipper as to the conscience,

For the law having a shadow of the good things that were to come, not the very likeness of the things, could not by the sacrifices which they offered continually every year perfect the offerers;

Be not carried about with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the mind should be established with grace, not with aliments, in which those walking are not profited.

and every one who believes is justified by him from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

For what the law could not do because it was weak through the flesh, God having sent his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned the sin in the flesh,

but now knowing God, or rather being known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and imperfect rudiments, which you wish again to serve?

for bodily exercise profits little; but piety is profitable in all things, having a promise of the present life and of the life to come.