Hebrews 7:16

¹⁴ For it is clear that our Lord descended from Judah, a tribe as to which Moses said nothing about priests.

¹⁵ And this point is even more clear if another priest like Melchizedek appears,

one who has become a priest not by a law of succession, but by the power of an indestructible life.

¹⁷ For it is testified: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

¹⁸ So the former commandment is set aside because it was weak and useless

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Sammenlign

ÅB: som ikke er blitt det ifølge et kjødelig buds lov, men ifølge et uforgjengelig livs kraft;
OTB: som har blitt en prest ikke på grunnlag av en forskrift om hans avstamning, men i henhold til kraften av et uforgjengelig liv.
B1930: som ikke er blitt det ifølge et kjødelig buds lov, men ifølge et uforgjengelig livs kraft;

BSB: one who has become a priest not by a law of succession, but by the power of an indestructible life.
KJV: Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
WEB: who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life;
ASV: who hath been made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life:
DARBY: who has been constituted not according to law of fleshly commandment, but according to power of indissoluble life.
BLB: who has become [such] not according to a law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an indestructible life.

Revelation 1:18
the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.
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Galatians 4:9
But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?
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Galatians 4:3
So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.
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Colossians 2:20
If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:
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Hebrews 10:1
For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
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Colossians 2:14
having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!
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Hebrews 7:3
Without father or mother or genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, like the Son of God, he remains a priest for all time.
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Hebrews 7:28
For the law appoints as high priests men who are weak; but the oath, which came after the law, appointed the Son, who has been made perfect forever.
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