Hebrews 7:1-10 ▼

1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

2 to whom also Abraham divided |a tenth part of everything| (being first, by interpretation, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace;

3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually.

4 Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the most valuable plunder.

5 They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest's office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the Law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of Abraham,

6 but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.

7 But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater.

8 Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives.

9 We can say that through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes,

10 for he was yet in the body of his father when Melchizedek met him.