¹¹ Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it hath the people received the law), what further need `was there' that another priest should arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be reckoned after the order of Aaron?

⁷ For if that first `covenant' had been faultless, then would no place have been sought for a second.

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

¹⁸ For there is a disannulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness

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

⁶ as he saith also in another `place,' Thou art a priest for ever After the order of Melchizedek.

²¹ I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought.

¹ For the law having a shadow of the good `things' to 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.

² Else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins.

³ But in those `sacrifices' there is a remembrance made of sins year by year.

⁴ For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

¹⁰ For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, And on their heart also will I write them: And I will be to them a God, And they shall be to me a people:

¹¹ And they shall not teach every man his fellow-citizen, And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: For all shall know me, From the least to the greatest of them.

¹² For I will be merciful to their iniquities, And their sins will I remember no more.

¹³ In that he saith, A new `covenant' he hath made the first old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto vanishing away.

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);

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

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

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

¹⁰ and in him ye are made full, who is the head of all principality and power:

¹¹ in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

¹² having been buried with him in baptism, wherein ye were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

¹³ And you, being dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you, `I say', did he make alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses;

¹⁴ having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out that way, nailing it to the cross;

¹⁵ having despoiled the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

¹⁶ Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day:

¹⁷ which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.

⁹ but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?

³ So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world: