Hebrews 7:16
Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
Context
This verse from Hebrews Chapter 7 connects to 10 cross-references. The Melchizedek priesthood argument: Melchizedek met Abraham returning from battle, Abraham paid him a tithe, and Melchizedek's name and biography suggest a priesthood without beginning or end. Jesus became a priest not by genealogy but by the power of an …
Other Translations
who hath been made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life:
who came not according to the law of a fleshly command, but according to the power of an endless life,
That is to say, not made by a law based on the flesh, but by the power of a life without end:
Cross References
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys …
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can …
Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of …
Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not …
For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the …
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever …
But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The …
For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the …