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Hebrews 7

1.For this Melchi-sedec *was King of Salem, the Priest of the most high God, who met Abraham, as he returned from the slaughter of the Kings, and blessed him:
2.To whom also Abraham gave the tithe of all things: who first is by interpretation King of righteousness: after that, he is also King of Salem, that is, King of peace,
3.Without afather, without mother, without kindred, and hath neither beginning of his days, neither end of life: but is likened unto the Son of God, & continueth a Priest for ever.
4.Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the bPatriarch Abraham gave the tithe of the spoils.
5.For verily they which are the children of Levi, which receive the office of the Priesthood, have a *ccommandment to take, according to the Law, tithes of the people (that is, of their brethren) though they dcame out of the loins of Abraham.
6.But he whose kindred is not counted among them, ereceived tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.
7.And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the greater.
8.And here men that die, receive tithes: but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed, that he fliveth.
9.And to say as the thing is, Levi also which receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.
10.For he was yet in the loins of his father Abraham, when Melchi-sedec met him.
11.If therefore perfection had been by the Priesthood of the Levites (for under it the Law was established to the people) what need it furthermore, that another Priest should rise after the order of Melchi-sedec, and not to be called after the order of Aaron?
12.For if the Priesthood be changed, then of necessity must there be a change of the gLaw.
13.For he of whom these things are spoken, pertaineth unto another tribe, whereof no man served at the altar.
14.For it is evident, that our Lord sprang out of Juda, concerning the which tribe Moses spake nothing, touching the Priesthood.
15.And it is yet a more evident thing, because that after the similitude of Melchi-sedec, there is risen up another Priest,
16.Which is not made Priest after the Law hof the carnal commandment, but after the power of the endless life,
17.For he testifieth thus, *Thou art a Priest for ever, after the order of Melchi-sedec.
18.For the commandment that went afore, is disannulled, because iof the weakness thereof, and unprofitableness.
19.For the Law made nothing prefect, but ^the bringing in of a better hope made prefect, whereby we draw near unto God.
20.And forasmuch as it is not without an oath (for these are made Priests without an oath:
21.But this, he is made with an oath by him that said unto him, *The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a Priest for ever, after the order of Melchi-sedec)
22.By so much is Jesus made a surety of a better ^Testament.
23.And among them many were made Priests, because they were not suffered to endure, by the reason of death.
24.But this man, because he endureth ever, hath an keverlasting Priesthood.
25.Wherefore, he is able also lperfectly to save them that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth, to make intercession for them.
26.For such an high Priest it became us to have, which is holie, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made heir then the heavens:
27.Which needed not daily as those high Priests to offer up sacrifice, *first for his own sins, and then for the peoples: for that did he monce, when he offered up him self.
28.For the Law maketh men high Priests, which have infirmity: but the word of the oath that was nsince the Law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.

Notes

1-*.
Gen 14.18.
3-a.
So called, because that Moses makes no mention of his parents or kinsfolks, but as he had been suddenly sent of God into the world to be a figure of Christ our everlasting Priest, and shortly taken out of the world again, so Christ as touching his humanity had no father, and concerning his divinity, no mother.
4-b.
That is, the chief of fathers.
5-*.
Nom. 18.24, Deu. 18.1, Jos. 13.14.
5-c.
The Levites had commandment to receive that, which Abraham gave freely to Melchi-sedec.
5-d.
Was begotten of Abraham.
6-e.
The Levites received tithes of their brethren, but Melchi-sedec of Abraham, the patriarch: therefore his priesthood is more excellent then the Levitical.
8-f.
Because there is no mention of his death.
12-g.
The Law and the Priesthood are both of one condition: so that both Aaron’s & Moses’ office pertain to Christ, which is Priest & Law maker.
16-h.
Which stood in outward and corporal ceremonies.
17-*.
Psal. 110.4, chap. 5.6.
18-i.
For the Law hath no virtue nor profit till a man be come to Christ.
19-^.
Or, it was an introduction of a better hope.
21-*.
Psal. 110.4.
22-^.
Or, convenant.
24-k.
Therefore all others are blasphemous, that either make themselves his successors, or pretend any other sacrifice.
25-l.
The fruit of his Priesthood is to save and that fully and perfectly, not by supplying that that wanted, but by taking away the Law which is unperfect by reason of our infirmities.
27-*.
Lev. 16.3.
27-m.
And can not without blaspheme be said to be offered again, or else by any creature for none could offer him, but himself.
28-n.
Not that it was first made after the Law was given: but because the declaration of the eternal oath was then revealed to the world.