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?

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;

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

Therefore by the deeds of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for through the Law is the full true knowledge of sin.

But now the righteousness of God apart from the Law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,

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,

knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through the faith of Jesus Christ, even we believe into Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the Law; for by the works of the Law no flesh shall be justified.

Therefore the Law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.

But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.

God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made complete apart from us.

For the Law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

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,

To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ, our hope,

Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holy of Holies by the blood of Jesus,

and having a High Priest over the house of God,

But it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lord Jehovah, to declare all Your works.

Jesus said to him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice on the hope of the glory of God.

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been made near by the blood of Christ.

having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, that He might create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace,

And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near.

in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through His faith.