If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
Exodus
LawOpen to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:
Psalms
PoetryAll the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahShall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
Revelation
ApocalypticI will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.
Psalms
PoetrySo the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them.
2 Kings
HistoryThen took I the cup at the LORD'S hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsFor a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesTruly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren.
Genesis
Law / MosesBecause ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
Joel
Minor ProphetsAnd again he went away, and prayed, and spake the same words.
Mark
GospelsWatch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewAnd they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull.
Mark
GospelsThey are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
1 John
General Epistles / JohnAnd my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
Galatians
Pauline EpistlesAnd also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
Genesis
LawHast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
2 Kings
HistoryThus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsOf how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?