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1This Melchizedek was the king of Salem and a priest of God Most High. When Abraham was coming back from winning a battle against a group of kings, Melchizedek met him and blessed him.
2Abraham gave him a tenth of everything he’d captured in the battle. First, the name Melchizedek means “king of what is right.” Then, “king of Salem” means “king of peace.”
3Melchizedek has no father or mother or family line. His life has no beginning or ending. He remains a priest forever, like the Son of God.
4Think how great Melchizedek was! Even our father Abraham gave him a tenth of what he had captured.
5Now the law says that the sons of Levi who become priests must collect a tenth from all the people. They collect it from the other Israelites even though they all belong to the family line of Abraham.
6Melchizedek didn’t trace his family line from Levi, but he still collected a tenth from Abraham. Melchizedek blessed the one who had received the promises.
7There’s no question that the more important person blesses the less important one.
8In the case of the Levites, the tenth is received by people who eventually die. But in the case of Melchizedek, it’s received by someone who’s said to be living.
9We might even say that Levi, who receives the tenth from the Israelites, paid it to Melchizedek through Abraham,
10because when Melchizedek met Abraham, Levi was still in Abraham’s body.
11If the priests who came from Levi’s family could have made the people perfect by what they did at the temple, then why would another priest have to come who wasn’t in the order of Aaron, but in the order of Melchizedek? The law that was given to the people said that priests had to come from Levi’s family line.
12So if the priests are changed, then the law must be changed too.
13God said these things about Jesus, and he was from a different tribe. No one from his tribe has ever served at the altar.
14It’s clear that our Lord came from the family line of Judah, and Moses said nothing about priests coming from that tribe.
15What we’re saying becomes even more clear if another priest like Melchizedek appears,
16someone who has become a priest not because of a rule about his family line but because of the power of a life that can never be destroyed.
17Scripture says,
“You are a priest forever,
in the order of Melchizedek.”
18The old rule is set aside because it was weak and useless.
19The law didn’t make anything perfect, but a better hope has now been given to us, and it brings us near to God.
20Notice that God changed the priests by swearing an oath. The ones from Levi’s family line became priests without God swearing an oath.
21But when Jesus became a priest, God confirmed this with an oath when he said to him,
“The Lord has sworn an oath
and he won’t change his mind. He has said,
‘You are a priest forever.’ ”
22Because of this oath, Jesus guarantees that we have a better covenant with God.
23There had to be many priests in Levi’s family line, because the old ones died, and new ones were needed to replace them.
24But Jesus lives forever, so he never stops being a priest.
25That’s why he’s able to save completely and for all time people who come to God through him. Jesus never stops praying for them.
26A high priest like him truly meets our needs. He’s holy, blameless, and pure, and he has been lifted up high above the heavens. He’s different from people who sin.
27Unlike the other high priests, he doesn’t need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins and then for the sins of the people. Instead, Jesus made one sacrifice for the sins of the people, once and for all time, when he offered himself.
28The law appoints men who are weak to be high priests. But after the law had been given, God swore an oath and appointed his Son, who has been made perfect forever.