Hebrews 7:19

Another Priest, Like Melchizedek

¹⁸ So an earlier regulation is abrogated because it was poor and ineffective ¹⁹ (for there was nothing final about the Law), and a better hope begins to dawn, through which we may approach God. ²⁰ And in proportion as Jesus was not appointed priest without God's making oath to it,

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Acts 13:39

and that through union with him everyone who believes is cleared of every charge of which the Law of Moses could not clear you.

Hebrews 4:16

So let us come with courage to God's throne of grace to receive his forgiveness and find him responsive when we need his help.

Hebrews 9:9

And all this looked toward the present time and was symbolic of the fact that the mere offering of material gifts and sacrifices cannot inwardly qualify the worshiper to approach God,

Romans 8:3

For though it was impossible for the Law to do it, hampered as it was by our physical limitations, God, by sending his own Son in our sinful physical form, as a sin-offering, put his condemnation upon sin through his physical nature,

Galatians 2:16

but who know that a man is not made upright by doing what the Law commands, but by faith in Christ Jesus??ven we believed in Christ Jesus, so as to be made upright by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands??or by doing what the Law commands no one can be made upright.

Hebrews 6:18

so that by these two unalterable things, which make it impossible for God to break his promise, we who have taken refuge with him may be greatly encouraged to seize upon the hope that is offered to us.

Hebrews 10:1

For while the Law foreshadowed the blessings that were to come, it did not fully express them, and so the priests by offering the same sacrifices endlessly year after year cannot wholly free those who come to worship from their sins.

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, "I am Way and Truth and Life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

Romans 3:20-21

For no human being can be made upright in the sight of God by observing the Law. All that the Law can do is to make man conscious of sin.

Romans 5:2

by whom we have been introduced through faith to the favor of God that we now enjoy, and let us glory in our hope of sharing the glory of God.

Galatians 3:24

So the Law has been our attendant on our way to Christ, so that we might be made upright through faith.

Ephesians 2:13-18

But now through your union with Christ Jesus you who were once far away have through the blood of Christ been brought near.

Ephesians 3:12

Through union with him and through faith in him, we have courage to approach God with confidence.

Colossians 1:27

to whom God has chosen to make known among the heathen how glorious this mystery of Christ in you, the promise of glorification, really is.

1 Timothy 1:1

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by order of God our Savior and of Jesus Christ our hope,

Hebrews 7:11

Now if anything final had been really accomplished through the Levitical priesthood, for even the giving of the Law was based upon it, what further need would there have been of appointing a different priest of the priesthood of Melchizedek, instead of choosing one of the priesthood of Aaron?

Hebrews 7:25

Therefore, he is able to save forever all who come to God through him, because he lives and intercedes for them forever.

Hebrews 8:6

But, as it is, the priestly service to which Christ has been appointed is as much better than the old as the agreement established by him and the promises on which it is based are superior to the former ones.

Hebrews 10:19-22

Since then, brothers, we have free access to the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus,

Hebrews 11:40

for God had resolved upon something still better for us, that they might not reach the fulfilment of their hopes except with us.