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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Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonAnd I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.
Deuteronomy
LawWalk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
Psalms
PoetrySeven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
Exodus
LawBut now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.
1 Samuel
HistoryThe chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahBut the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew
GospelsAnd Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahBehold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
Lamentations
Major ProphetsAnd the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.
Genesis
LawNow about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.
Acts
History / LukeHe shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.
Numbers
Law / MosesThus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
Luke
GospelsThat I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
Genesis
Law / MosesCan the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
Job
WisdomAnd of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from the men that warred,
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the sons of Mishma; Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThat they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
Micah
Minor ProphetsI know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
2 Kings
HistoryThe good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.