to Him, "The Lord has sworn and will not recall His words,
Thou art a Priest for ever"--
007:022 so much the more also is the Covenant of which Jesus has become
the guarantor, a better covenant.
007:023 And they have been appointed priests many in number,
because death prevents their continuance in office:
007:024 but He, because He continues for ever, has a priesthood
which does not pass to any successor.
007:025 Hence too He is able to save to the uttermost those who come
to God through Him, seeing that He ever lives to plead for them.
007:026 Moreover we needed just such a High Priest as this--
holy, guileless, undefiled, far removed from sinful men
and exalted above the heavens;
007:027 who, unlike other High Priests, is not under the necessity
of offering up sacrifices day after day, first for His own sins,
and afterwards for those of the people; for this latter thing
He did once for all when He offered up Himself.
007:028 For the Law constitutes men High Priests--men with all
their infirmity--but the utterance of the oath, which came
later than the Law, constitutes High Priest a Son who has
been made for ever perfect.
008:001 Now in connexion with what we have been saying the chief point
is that we have a High Priest who has taken His seat at
the right hand of the throne of God's Majesty in the heavens,
008:002 and ministers in the Holy place and in the true tabernacle
which not man, but the Lord pitched.
008:003 Every High Priest, however, is appointed to offer both bloodless
gifts and sacrifices. Therefore this High Priest also must
have some offering to present.
008:004 If then He were still on earth, He would not be a priest at all,