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Numbers 25:13
and it shall be for him and for his descendants after him, a covenant of a permanent priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the sons of Israel.’ ”
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Psalms 110:4
The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind,“ You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek.”
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Hebrews 5:1-14
For every high priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf of people in things pertaining to God, in order to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins;he can deal gently with the ignorant and misguided, since he himself also is clothed in weakness;and because of it he is obligated to offer sacrifices for sins for himself, as well as for the people.And no one takes the honor for himself, but receives it when he is called by God, just as Aaron also was.So too Christ did not glorify Himself in becoming a high priest, but it was He who said to Him,“ You are My Son, Today I have fathered You”;just as He also says in another passage,“ You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek.”In the days of His humanity, He offered up both prayers and pleas with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His devout behavior.Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered.And having been perfected, He became the source of eternal salvation for all those who obey Him,being designated by God as High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek.Concerning him we have much to say, and it is difficult to explain, since you have become poor listeners.For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the actual words of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.For everyone who partakes only of milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness, for he is an infant.But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to distinguish between good and evil.
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Hebrews 7:17-24
For it is attested of Him,“ You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek.”For, on the one hand, there is the nullification of a former commandment because of its weakness and uselessness( for the Law made nothing perfect); on the other hand, there is the introduction of a better hope, through which we come near to God.And to the extent that it was not without an oath( for they indeed became priests without an oath, but He with an oath through the One who said to Him,“ The Lord has sworn And will not change His mind,‘ You are a priest forever’ ”);by the same extent Jesus also has become the guarantee of a better covenant.The former priests, on the one hand, existed in greater numbers because they were prevented by death from continuing;Jesus, on the other hand, because He continues forever, holds His priesthood permanently.
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Hebrews 8:1-10
Now the main point in what has been said is this: we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,a minister in the sanctuary and in the true tabernacle, which the Lord set up, not man.For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; so it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest at all, since there are those who offer the gifts according to the Law;who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned by God when he was about to erect the tabernacle; for,“ See,” He says,“ that you make all things by the pattern which was shown to you on the mountain.”But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, to the extent that He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.For if that first covenant had been free of fault, no circumstances would have been sought for a second.For in finding fault with the people, He says,“ Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, When I will bring about a new covenant With the house of Israel and the house of Judah,Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers On the day I took them by the hand To bring them out of the land of Egypt; For they did not continue in My covenant, And I did not care about them, says the Lord.For this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel After those days, declares the Lord: I will put My laws into their minds, And write them on their hearts. And I will be their God, And they shall be My people.
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Exodus 29:9
And you shall wrap their waists with sashes, Aaron and his sons, and fit caps on them, and they shall have the priesthood by a permanent statute. So you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.
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Hebrews 7:3
Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, he remains a priest perpetually.
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Exodus 12:14
‘ Now this day shall be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance.
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Hebrews 7:7
But without any dispute the lesser person is blessed by the greater.
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Exodus 30:31
Furthermore, you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying,‘ This shall be a holy anointing oil to Me throughout your generations.
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Exodus 30:33
Whoever mixes any like it or whoever puts any of it on a layman shall be cut off from his people.’ ”