Hebrews 7:16

Hebrews chapter 7 · verse 16 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

who hath been made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life:

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

who hath been made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life:

Context

v.15And what we say is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there ariseth another priest,

v.16This passage

v.17for it is witnessed of him, Thou art a priest for ever After the order of Melchizedek.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Hebrews 10:1

    For the law having a shadow of the goodthingsto come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh.

  • Colossians 2:14

    having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

  • Hebrews 7:3

    without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like unto the Son of God), abideth a priest continually.

  • Galatians 4:3

    So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:

  • Hebrews 7:24

    but he, because he abideth for ever, hath his priesthood unchangeable.

  • Hebrews 7:21

    (for they indeed have been made priests without an oath; but he with an oath by him that saith of him, The Lord sware and will not repent himself, Thou art a priest for ever);