not made according to the law of carnal commandment, but according to the power of infinite life.

For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

For the former law is abolished, because it was weak, and of no profit.

(For the law could not make anything perfect), and is introduced a better hope, by which we draw near to God;

And in addition, which is much, not without an oath. For those have been priests without oath;

And this with an oath by him that saith unto him, The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent of him, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

So then of so much better testament became JEsus.

And there are many that have become priests, because death hath not left them; 24. But this, because he abideth for ever, hath an everlasting priesthood; 25. Therefore he also is able to save forever them that come unto God by him, and live forever, and pray for them.

For we ought to have such a high priest, holy, innocent, without blemish, separate from sinners, and higher than the heavens,

Who had not need daily, as did those chief priests, to offer sacrifice first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people: for this he did once, when he offered himself.

For the law maketh men high priests in weakness: but this word of the oath, which is spoken under the law, maketh the Son eternal and perfect.
(Hebrews)
Chapter 8
Comparison of the priesthood of Christ with the priesthood of the Levites.

Now this is the summa of which we speak: We have such a high priest sitting on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven;

And is a keeper of the holy things, and of the true tabernacle, which God hath set up, and no man.

For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices. Therefore he also must have something to offer.

Now if he were on the earth, he would not be a priest, because there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law,

Which serve for the pattern and shadow of heavenly things: as the divine answer spake unto Moses, when he finished the tabernacle: See thou, said he, that thou make all things after the image which is shewed thee in the mount.

But now he hath obtained a better office, as he that is the mediator of a better testament, which is also upon better promises.

For if that, the first, had been blameless, room would not have been sought for another.

For he reproved them, saying, Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new testament concerning the house of Israel, and concerning the house of Judah; 9. Not according to the testament which I made with their fathers in the day that I took their hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they abode not in my testament: neither have I regarded them, saith the LORD.

For this is the testament which I will make unto the house of Israel after those days, saith the LORD; I will put my laws in their mind, and in their heart will I write them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

And let no man teach his neighbour, nor his brother, saying, Know the LORD. For they shall all know me, from the least even unto the greatest.

For I will be merciful to their iniquity and their sins, and their unrighteousness will I remember no more.

In saying, A new thing, he maketh the first old. But that which is old, and waxen old, is nigh unto his end.
(Hebrews)
Chapter 9
The tabernacle and the Levitical sacrifices a model of the high priestly office of Christ.

Though the first also had its rights of worship and outward holiness.

For there was set up the front of the tabernacle, and in it the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread: and these are called the holy things.

And behind the other curtain was the tabernacle which is called the holy of holies.

Which had the censer of gold, and the ark of the testament overlaid all over with gold, wherein was the gelt of gold, which had the bread of heaven, and the rod of Aaron, which had the foundation, and the tables of the testament.

And above were the cherubims of glory, overshadowing the mercy seat; of which it is not now to be said in particular.

When these things were thus prepared, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, and performed the service.

And into the other went the high priest only once in the year, not without blood, to offer for himself, and for the ignorance of the people.

That the Holy Ghost might signify, that as long as the first tabernacle stood, the way to holiness was not yet made manifest,

Which in those days was a pattern, in the which gifts and sacrifices were offered, and could not make him perfect in conscience that worshippeth.

With meat and drink only, and divers baptisms, and outward holiness, which are laid up until the time of correction.
(Epistle on Sunday Judica.)

But Christ is come to be an high priest of things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, which is not made with hands, that is, which is not so made; 12. Neither by the blood of goats, nor by the blood of calves: but by his own blood he entered into the holy things once, and made an everlasting redemption.

For the blood of bullocks and of goats, and the ashes sprinkled from the heifer, sanctifieth the unclean unto spotlessness of the flesh,

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who offered Himself without change to God through the Holy Spirit, cleanse our conscience from dead works to serve the living God!

And for this cause he is also a mediator of the new testament, that through the death which was wrought for redemption from the transgressions which were under the first testament they which are called might receive the promised eternal inheritance].

For where there is a will, there must be the death of him that made the will.

For a will is established by death; otherwise it hath no power yet, if he that made it be alive.

Therefore also the first was not made without blood.

For when Moses had spoken all the commandments of the law unto all the people, he took
the blood of calves and of goats, and water, and purple wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the book, and all the people.

And said, This is the blood of the testament which God hath commanded you.

And he sprinkled the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the service, with blood of the same kind.

And almost all things are purged with blood according to the law. And without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

So then the heavenly things had to be purified with such an offering; but they themselves, the heavenly things, must have better offerings than these were.

For Christ is not entered into the holy things which are made with hands (which is the antitype of the righteous), but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us.

Neither shall he offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with strange blood.

Otherwise he should have suffered many times from the beginning of the world. But now, at the end of the world, he has appeared once to put away sin by his own sacrifice.

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment, 28. So Christ was once offered to take away many sins. But the second time he shall appear without sin unto them that wait for him unto salvation.
((Hebrews)
Chapter 10
The excellence of Christ’s atoning sacrifice.

For the law hath the shadow of the good things to come, and not the nature of the good things themselves. Every year they offer the same sacrifice, and they that offer it cannot be made perfect;

Otherwise the sacrifice would have ceased, where those who are at the service would have no more conscience of sins, if they were once purified;

But by them only is there a remembrance of sins every year.

For it is impossible to take away sins by the blood of bulls and goats.

Therefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifices and offerings thou didst not desire; but the body thou hast prepared for me.

burnt offerings and sin offerings are not pleasing to you.

Then said I, Behold, I come; in the book it is chiefly written of me, that I should do thy will, O
God.

When he had said, Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings, thou didst not desire them; neither did they please thee (which are offered according to the law), 9. And he said, Behold, I come to do thy will, O God. And he abolished the first, that he might establish the other.

In which will we are sanctified, being once made holy by the sacrifice of the body of JESUS
CHRIST.

And every priest is ordained to minister every day, and oftentimes to offer the same sacrifice, which never taketh away sins.

But this man, having offered a sacrifice for sins which endureth for ever, sitteth now at the right hand of God.

And wait hence, till his enemies be made the footstool of his feet.

For with one offering hath he perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

Now the Holy Ghost also testifieth unto us. For after he had said before: 16. This is the testament which I will make unto them after those days, saith the LORD; I will put my law