Hebrews 7:16
one who has become a priest not by a law of succession, but by the power of an indestructible life.
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the law.

Hebrews 9:9, 10
It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper. . . .

Hebrews 10:1
The Law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.

Galatians 4:3, 9
So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world. . . .

Colossians 2:14, 20
having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross! . . .

the power.

Hebrews 7:3, 17, 21, 24, 25, 28
Without father or mother or genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, like the Son of God, he remains a priest for all time. . . .

Revelation 1:18
the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
who has become such not on the basis of a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life.

King James Bible
Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
who did not become a priest based on a legal command concerning physical descent but based on the power of an indestructible life.

International Standard Version
who was appointed to be a priest, not on the basis of a genealogical registry, but rather on the power of an indestructible life.

NET Bible
who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent but by the power of an indestructible life.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He who was not by the law of carnal commandments, but by the power of an indestructible life.
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