Hebrews 7:11 Cross References

Hebrews 7:11

11: And finally, if the priesthood of Levi could have achieved God's purposes--and it was that priesthood on which the law was based--why did God need to send a different priest from the line of Melchizedek, instead of from the line of Levi and Aaron?

Hebrews 8:7

  1. If the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need for a second covenant to replace it.

Galatians 2:21

  1. I am not one of those who treats the grace of God as meaningless. For if we could be saved by keeping the law, then there was no need for Christ to die.

Hebrews 5:6

  1. And in another passage God said to him, "You are a priest forever in the line of Melchizedek."

Hebrews 7:17

  1. And the psalmist pointed this out when he said of Christ, "You are a priest forever in the line of Melchizedek."
  2. Yes, the old requirement about the priesthood was set aside because it was weak and useless.
  3. For the law made nothing perfect, and now a better hope has taken its place. And that is how we draw near to God.

Hebrews 7:15

  1. The change in God's law is even more evident from the fact that a different priest, who is like Melchizedek, has now come.

Hebrews 7:21

  1. Only to Jesus did he say, "The Lord has taken an oath and will not break his vow: 'You are a priest forever.'"

Hebrews 10:1

  1. The old system in the law of Moses was only a shadow of the things to come, not the reality of the good things Christ has done for us. The sacrifices under the old system were repeated again and again, year after year, but they were never able to provide perfect cleansing for those who came to worship.
  2. If they could have provided perfect cleansing, the sacrifices would have stopped, for the worshipers would have been purified once for all time, and their feelings of guilt would have disappeared.
  3. But just the opposite happened. Those yearly sacrifices reminded them of their sins year after year.
  4. For it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Galatians 4:3

  1. And that's the way it was with us before Christ came. We were slaves to the spiritual powers of this world.

Hebrews 8:10

  1. But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel on that day, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds so they will understand them, and I will write them on their hearts so they will obey them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
  2. And they will not need to teach their neighbors, nor will they need to teach their family, saying, 'You should know the Lord.' For everyone, from the least to the greatest, will already know me.
  3. And I will forgive their wrongdoings, and I will never again remember their sins."
  4. When God speaks of a new covenant, it means he has made the first one obsolete. It is now out of date and ready to be put aside.

Colossians 2:10

  1. and you are complete through your union with Christ. He is the Lord over every ruler and authority in the universe.
  2. When you came to Christ, you were "circumcised," but not by a physical procedure. It was a spiritual procedure--the cutting away of your sinful nature.
  3. For you were buried with Christ when you were baptized. And with him you were raised to a new life because you trusted the mighty power of God, who raised Christ from the dead.
  4. You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ. He forgave all our sins.
  5. He canceled the record that contained the charges against us. He took it and destroyed it by nailing it to Christ's cross.

Hebrews 5:10

  1. And God designated him to be a High Priest in the line of Melchizedek.

Galatians 4:9

  1. And now that you have found God (or should I say, now that God has found you), why do you want to go back again and become slaves once more to the weak and useless spiritual powers of this world?

Hebrews 6:20

  1. Jesus has already gone in there for us. He has become our eternal High Priest in the line of Melchizedek.
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