Melchizedek

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• GEN 14:17, engwebp

  ¹⁷The king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).

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• GEN 14:18–20, engwebp

  ¹⁸Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High.

  ¹⁹He blessed him, and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth.

  ²⁰Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave him a tenth of all.

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• HEB 5:1–10, engwebp

  ¹For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

  ²The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.

  ³Because of this, he must offer sacrifices for sins for the people, as well as for himself.

  ⁴Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.

  ⁵So also Christ didn’t glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father.”

  ⁶As he says also in another place, “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.”

  ⁷He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

  ⁸though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

  ⁹Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

  ¹⁰named by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.

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• HEB 5:11–14, engwebp

  ¹¹About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

  ¹²For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

  ¹³For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

  ¹⁴But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

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• HEB 6:13–20, engwebp

  ¹³For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,

  ¹⁴saying, “Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.”

  ¹⁵Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

  ¹⁶For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.

  ¹⁷In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

  ¹⁸that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

  ¹⁹This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil,

  ²⁰where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

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• HEB 7:1–10, engwebp

  ¹For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

  ²to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, “king of righteousness”, and then also “king of Salem”, which means “king of peace”,

  ³without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually.

  ⁴Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth out of the best plunder.

  ⁵They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest’s office have a commandment to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of Abraham,

  ⁶but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.

  ⁷But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater.

  ⁸Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives.

  ⁹We can say that through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes,

  ¹⁰for he was yet in the body of his father when Melchizedek met him.

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• HEB 7:11–19, engwebp

  ¹¹Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

  ¹²For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the law.

  ¹³For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar.

  ¹⁴For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

  ¹⁵This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest,

  ¹⁶who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life;

  ¹⁷for it is testified, “You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.”

  ¹⁸For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

  ¹⁹(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

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• HEB 7:20–28, engwebp

  ²⁰Inasmuch as he was not made priest without the taking of an oath

  ²¹(for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him, “The Lord swore and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.’”

  ²²By so much, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

  ²³Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered from continuing by death.

  ²⁴But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable.

  ²⁵Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

  ²⁶For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

  ²⁷who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.

  ²⁸For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.

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• PSA 110:1–7, engwebp

  ¹A Psalm by David. The LORD says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

  ²The LORD will send out the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule among your enemies.

  ³Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

  ⁴The LORD has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

  ⁵The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.

  ⁶He will judge among the nations. He will heap up dead bodies. He will crush the ruler of the whole earth.

  ⁷He will drink of the brook on the way; therefore he will lift up his head.

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