Hebrews 7:16

who did not become a priest based on a legal command concerning physical descent but based on the power of an indestructible life.

Galatians 4:3

In the same way we also, when we were children, were in slavery under the elemental forces of the world.

Galatians 4:9

But now, since you know God, or rather have become known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and bankrupt elemental forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

Colossians 2:14

He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it out of the way by nailing it to the cross.

Colossians 2:20

If you died with the Messiah to the elemental forces of this world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations:

Hebrews 7:3

without father, mother, or genealogy,
having neither beginning of days nor end of life,
but resembling the Son of God—

remains a priest forever.

Hebrews 7:17

For it has been testified:

You are a priest forever
in the order of Melchizedek.

Hebrews 7:21

but He became a priest with an oath made by the One who said to Him:

The Lord has sworn,
and He will not change His mind,
You are a priest forever.

Hebrews 7:24-25

But because He remains forever, He holds His priesthood permanently.

Hebrews 7:28

For the law appoints as high priests men who are weak, but the promise of the oath, which came after the law, appoints a Son, who has been perfected forever.

Hebrews 9:9-10

This is a symbol for the present time, during which gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the worshiper’s conscience.

Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the actual form of those realities, it can never perfect the worshipers by the same sacrifices they continually offer year after year.

Revelation 1:18

and the Living One. I was dead, but look—I am alive forever and ever, and I hold the keys of death and Hades.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Hebrews 7:16

Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.

The power

Hebrews 7:3

Revelation 1:18

General references

Leviticus 8:34

Bible References

The power

without father, mother, or genealogy,
having neither beginning of days nor end of life,
but resembling the Son of God—

remains a priest forever.

and the Living One. I was dead, but look—I am alive forever and ever, and I hold the keys of death and Hades.

General references

The Lord commanded what has been done today in order to make atonement for you.