¹⁶ That is to say, not made by a law based on the flesh, but by the power of a life without end:

¹⁸ And I was dead, and see, I am living for ever, and I have the keys of death and of Hell.

¹ For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean.

⁹ And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean,

¹⁰ Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.

²⁸ The law makes high priests of men who are feeble; but the word of the oath, which was made after the law, gives that position to a Son, in whom all good is for ever complete.

²⁴ But this priest, because his life goes on for ever, is unchanging.

²⁵ So that he is fully able to be the saviour of all who come to God through him, because he is ever living to make prayer to God for them.

²¹ (For those were made priests without an oath, but this one was made a priest with an oath by him who says of him, The Lord gave his oath, which he will not take back, that you are a priest for ever);

¹⁷ For it has been witnessed of him, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

³ Being without father or mother, or family, having no birth or end to his life, being made like the Son of God, is a priest for ever.

²⁰ If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

¹⁴ Having put an end to the handwriting of the law which was against us, taking it out of the way by nailing it to his cross;

⁹ But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?

³ So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world;