And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine. And he was priest of God Most High.
God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and will he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and will he not make it good?
even he shall build the temple of Jehovah; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
as he saith also in another (place,) Thou art a priest for ever After the order of Melchizedek.
named of God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
Wherein God, being minded to show more abundantly unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;
that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us:
which we have as an anchor of the soul, (a hope) both sure and stedfast and entering into that which is within the veil;
whither as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it hath the people received the law), what further need (was there) that another priest should arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be reckoned after the order of Aaron?
And (what we say) is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there ariseth another priest,
(for they indeed have been made priests without an oath; but he with an oath by him that saith of him, The Lord sware and will not repent himself, Thou art a priest for ever);