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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 ?

But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.

For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah ; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.

And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel .

Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites .

And verily they that are of the sons of Levi , who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham :

But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the Lord is their inheritance: and Gad , and Reuben , and half the tribe of Manasseh , have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them.

For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;

And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?

These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.

These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.

And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office: for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.

Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ .

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

And the Lord said unto Aaron , Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

And Annas the high priest , and Caiaphas, and John , and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest , were gathered together at Jerusalem .

And Simon Peter followed Jesus , and so did another disciple: that disciple was known unto the high priest , and went in with Jesus into the palace of the high priest .

Then said the high priest , Are these things so?

And having an high priest over the house of God;

And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest , they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim , and of all the remnant of Israel , and of all Judah and Benjamin ; and they returned to Jerusalem .

Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.

Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest .