Therefore, if perfection were through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the Law), what further need was there that another priest should rise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be called according to the order of Aaron?

For the priesthood being changed, of necessity there is also a change of the Law.

For if that first had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.

not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I did not regard them, says the Lord.

And they shall not each one teach his neighbor, and each one his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for every one shall know Me, from the least of them to their great ones.

In that He says, New, He has made the first old. Now what is becoming worn out and growing old is ready to disappear.

For the Law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of those things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect.

But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.

Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me.

Then I said, Behold, I have come (In the volume of the book it is written of Me) to do Your will, O God.

then He said, Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God. He takes away the first in order that He may establish the second.

Do we then annul the Law through faith? Let it not be! No rather, we establish the Law.

Brethren, I speak in the manner of men: Though it is only a man's covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it.

And this I say, A covenant having been established before by God in Christ, the Law coming into being four hundred and thirty years later, does not annul the promise, so as to abolish it.

For the Law made nothing perfect, but a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

For if that first had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.

Because finding fault with them, He says: Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant, and bring fulfillment to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah;

It was a comparison for the present time in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make him who performed the service perfect in regard to the conscience;

concerned only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time when things were set right.

For the Law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of those things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect.

But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.

Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.

and by Him everyone who believes is justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the Law of Moses.

For what the Law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh; and on account of sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,

But now, knowing God, or rather being known by God, how is it that you turn again to the feeble and worthless principles, to which you desire again to be in bondage?

Tell me, you who desire to be under the Law, do you not hear the Law?

For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.