{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "hebrews", "chapter": 7 }, "data": { "n": 7, "bookSlug": "hebrews", "bookCode": "HEB", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "HEB-7:1", "verseRef": "HEB.7.1", "text": "For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him," },{ "n": 2, "refId": "HEB-7:2", "verseRef": "HEB.7.2", "text": "to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, King of righteousness, and then also King of Salem, which is King of peace;" },{ "n": 3, "refId": "HEB-7:3", "verseRef": "HEB.7.3", "text": "without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like unto the Son of God), abideth a priest continually." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "HEB-7:4", "verseRef": "HEB.7.4", "text": "Now consider how great this man was, unto whom Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the chief spoils." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "HEB-7:5", "verseRef": "HEB.7.5", "text": "And they indeed of the sons of Levi that receive the priest`s office have commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though these have come out of the loins of Abraham:" },{ "n": 6, "refId": "HEB-7:6", "verseRef": "HEB.7.6", "text": "but he whose genealogy is not counted from them hath taken tithes of Abraham, and hath blessed him that hath the promises." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "HEB-7:7", "verseRef": "HEB.7.7", "text": "But without any dispute the less is blessed of the better." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "HEB-7:8", "verseRef": "HEB.7.8", "text": "And here men that die receive tithes; but there one, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "HEB-7:9", "verseRef": "HEB.7.9", "text": "And, so to say, through Abraham even Levi, who receiveth tithes, hath paid tithes;" },{ "n": 10, "refId": "HEB-7:10", "verseRef": "HEB.7.10", "text": "for he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchizedek met him." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "HEB-7:11", "verseRef": "HEB.7.11", "text": "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?" },{ "n": 12, "refId": "HEB-7:12", "verseRef": "HEB.7.12", "text": "For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "HEB-7:13", "verseRef": "HEB.7.13", "text": "For he of whom these things are said belongeth to another tribe, from which no man hath given attendance at the altar." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "HEB-7:14", "verseRef": "HEB.7.14", "text": "For it is evident that our Lord hath sprung out of Judah; as to which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priests." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "HEB-7:15", "verseRef": "HEB.7.15", "text": "And [what we say] is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there ariseth another priest," },{ "n": 16, "refId": "HEB-7:16", "verseRef": "HEB.7.16", "text": "who hath been made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life:" },{ "n": 17, "refId": "HEB-7:17", "verseRef": "HEB.7.17", "text": "for it is witnessed [of him,] Thou art a priest for ever After the order of Melchizedek." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "HEB-7:18", "verseRef": "HEB.7.18", "text": "For there is a disannulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness" },{ "n": 19, "refId": "HEB-7:19", "verseRef": "HEB.7.19", "text": "(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw nigh unto God." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "HEB-7:20", "verseRef": "HEB.7.20", "text": "And inasmuch as [it is] not without the taking of an oath" },{ "n": 21, "refId": "HEB-7:21", "verseRef": "HEB.7.21", "text": "(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);" },{ "n": 22, "refId": "HEB-7:22", "verseRef": "HEB.7.22", "text": "by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "HEB-7:23", "verseRef": "HEB.7.23", "text": "And they indeed have been made priests many in number, because that by death they are hindered from continuing:" },{ "n": 24, "refId": "HEB-7:24", "verseRef": "HEB.7.24", "text": "but he, because he abideth for ever, hath his priesthood unchangeable." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "HEB-7:25", "verseRef": "HEB.7.25", "text": "Wherefore also he is able to save to the uttermost them that draw near unto God through him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "HEB-7:26", "verseRef": "HEB.7.26", "text": "For such a high priest became us, holy, guileless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;" },{ "n": 27, "refId": "HEB-7:27", "verseRef": "HEB.7.27", "text": "who needeth not daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the [sins] of the people: for this he did once for all, when he offered up himself." },{ "n": 28, "refId": "HEB-7:28", "verseRef": "HEB.7.28", "text": "For the law appointeth men high priests, having infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was after the law, [appointeth] a Son, perfected for evermore." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/hebrews/chapters/7", "book": "/v1/library/books/hebrews/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/hebrews/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }