Hebrews 7 — DBY
7Verse 1For this Melchisedec, King of Salem, priest of the most high°God, who met Abraham returning from smiting the kings, and blessed him;Verse 2to whom Abraham gave also the tenth portion of all; first being interpreted King of righteousness, and then also King of Salem, which is King of peace;Verse 3without father, without mother, without genealogy; having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but assimilated to the Son of°God, abides a priest continually.Verse 4Now consider how great this [personage] was, to whom [even] the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth out of the spoils.Verse 5And they indeed from among the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have commandment to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is from their brethren, though these are come out of the loins of Abraham:Verse 6but he who has no genealogy from them has tithed Abraham, and blessed him who had the promises.Verse 7But beyond all gainsaying, the inferior is blessed by the better.Verse 8And here dying men receive tithes; but there [one] of whom the witness is that he lives;Verse 9and, so to speak, through Abraham, Levi also, who received tithes, has been made to pay tithes.Verse 10For he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchisedec met him.Verse 11If indeed then perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, for the people had their law given to them in connexion with it, what need [was there] still that a different priest should arise according to the order of Melchisedec, and not be named after the order of Aaron?Verse 12For, the priesthood being changed, there takes place of necessity a change of law also.Verse 13For he, of whom these things are said, belongs to a different tribe, of which no one has [ever] been attached to the service of the altar.Verse 14For it is clear that our Lord has sprung out of Juda, as to which tribe Moses spake nothing as to priests.Verse 15And it is yet more abundantly evident, since a different priest arises according to the similitude of Melchisedec,Verse 16who has been constituted not according to law of fleshly commandment, but according to power of indissoluble life.Verse 17For it is borne witness, Thou art a priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedec.Verse 18For there is a setting aside of the commandment going before for its weakness and unprofitableness,Verse 19(for the law perfected nothing,) and the introduction of a better hope by which we draw nigh to°God.Verse 20And by how much [it was] not without the swearing of an oath;Verse 21(for they are become priests without the swearing of an oath, but he with the swearing of an oath, by him who said, as to him, The Lord has sworn, and will not repent [of it], Thou [art] priest for ever [according to the order of Melchisedec];)Verse 22by so much Jesus became surety of a better covenant.Verse 23And they have been many priests, on account of being hindered from continuing by death;Verse 24but he, because of his continuing for ever, has the priesthood unchangeable.Verse 25Whence also he is able to save completely those who approach by him to°God, always living to intercede for them.Verse 26For such a high priest became us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and become higher than the heavens:Verse 27who has not day by day need, as the high priests, first to offer up sacrifices for his own sins, then [for] those of the people; for this he did once for all [in] having offered up himself.Verse 28For the law constitutes men high priests, having infirmity; but the word of the swearing of the oath which [is] after the law, a Son perfected for ever.