Bible Cross References
perfection
Hebrews 7:18
The old rule, then, is set aside, because it was weak and useless.
Hebrews 7:19
For the Law of Moses could not make anything perfect. And now a better hope has been provided through which we come near to God.
Hebrews 8:7
If there had been nothing wrong with the first covenant, there would have been no need for a second one.
Hebrews 8:10-13
10
Now, this is the covenant that I will make with the people of Israel in the days to come, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
11
None of them will have to teach their friends or tell their neighbors, 'Know the Lord.' For they will all know me, from the least to the greatest.
12
I will forgive their sins and will no longer remember their wrongs."
13
By speaking of a new covenant, God has made the first one old; and anything that becomes old and worn out will soon disappear.
Hebrews 10:1-4
1
The Jewish Law is not a full and faithful model of the real things; it is only a faint outline of the good things to come. The same sacrifices are offered forever, year after year. How can the Law, then, by means of these sacrifices make perfect the people who come to God?
2
If the people worshiping God had really been purified from their sins, they would not feel guilty of sin any more, and all sacrifices would stop.
3
As it is, however, the sacrifices serve year after year to remind people of their sins.
4
For the blood of bulls and goats can never take away sins.
Galatians 2:21
I refuse to reject the grace of God. But if a person is put right with God through the Law, it means that Christ died for nothing!
Galatians 4:3
In the same way, we too were slaves of the ruling spirits of the universe before we reached spiritual maturity.
Galatians 4:9
But now that you know God---or, I should say, now that God knows you---how is it that you want to turn back to those weak and pitiful ruling spirits? Why do you want to become their slaves all over again?
Colossians 2:10-17
10
and you have been given full life in union with him. He is supreme over every spiritual ruler and authority.
11
In union with Christ you were circumcised, not with the circumcision that is made by human beings, but with the circumcision made by Christ, which consists of being freed from the power of this sinful self.
12
For when you were baptized, you were buried with Christ, and in baptism you were also raised with Christ through your faith in the active power of God, who raised him from death.
13
You were at one time spiritually dead because of your sins and because you were Gentiles without the Law. But God has now brought you to life with Christ. God forgave us all our sins;
14
he canceled the unfavorable record of our debts with its binding rules and did away with it completely by nailing it to the cross.
15
And on that cross Christ freed himself from the power of the spiritual rulers and authorities; he made a public spectacle of them by leading them as captives in his victory procession.
16
So let no one make rules about what you eat or drink or about holy days or the New Moon Festival or the Sabbath.
17
All such things are only a shadow of things in the future; the reality is Christ.
another
Hebrews 7:15
The matter becomes even plainer; a different priest has appeared, who is like Melchizedek.
Hebrews 7:17
For the scripture says, "You will be a priest forever, in the priestly order of Melchizedek."
Hebrews 7:21
But Jesus became a priest by means of a vow when God said to him, "The Lord has made a solemn promise and will not take it back: 'You will be a priest forever.' "
Hebrews 5:6
He also said in another place, "You will be a priest forever, in the priestly order of Melchizedek."
Hebrews 5:10
and God declared him to be high priest, in the priestly order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 6:20
On our behalf Jesus has gone in there before us and has become a high priest forever, in the priestly order of Melchizedek.