The Priest Melchizedek
1Melchizedek
2And Abraham gave Melchizedek one-tenth of everything he had. (The name Melchizedek, king of Salem, has two meanings. First, Melchizedek means “king of goodness.” Also, “king of Salem” means “king of peace.”)
3No person knows who Melchizedek’s father or mother was or where he came from.
4You can see that Melchizedek
5Now the law says that people in the family group
6Melchizedek was not from the family group of Levi. But he got one-tenth from Abraham. And he blessed Abraham—the man who had God’s promises.
7And all people know that the more important person blesses the less important person.
8Those priests get one-tenth, but they are only men who live and then die. But Melchizedek, who got one-tenth {from Abraham} , continues living, like the Scriptures
9It is Levi who gets one-tenth {from the people}. But we can say that when Abraham paid Melchizedek one-tenth, then Levi also paid it.
10Levi was not yet born. But Levi was in the body of his ancestor Abraham when Melchizedek met Abraham.
11People were given the law
12And when a different kind of priest comes, then the law must be changed too.
13We are saying these things about Christ. He belonged to a different family group. No person from that family group ever served {as a priest} at the altar.
14It is clear that our Lord (Christ) came from the family group of Judah. And Moses
Jesus Is a Priest like Melchizedek
15And these things become even more clear. We see that another priest (Jesus) comes who is like Melchizedek.
16He was made a priest not by any law or rules about his human family. He became a priest through the power of his life which continues forever.
17{The Scriptures
18The old rule (law) is now ended because it was weak and worthless.
19The law {of Moses} could not make anything perfect. And now a better hope has been given to us. And with that hope we can come near to God.
20Also, it is important that God made a vow (promise) when he made Jesus high priest.
21But Christ became a priest with God’s vow. God said to him: “The Lord has made a vow (promise) and will not change his mind: ‘You are a priest forever.’” Psalm 110:4
22So this means that Jesus is the guarantee of a better agreement
23Also, when one of those other priests died, he could not continue being a priest. So there were many of those priests.
24But Jesus lives forever. He will never stop serving as priest.
25So Christ can save those people who come to God through him. Christ can do this forever, because he always lives, ready to help people when they come before God.
26So Jesus is the kind of high priest
27He is not like those other priests. Those other priests had to offer (give) sacrifices
28The law chooses high priests who are people and have the same weaknesses as people. But God made a promise that came after the law. God spoke those words with a vow (promise), and those words made the Son of God to be the high priest. And that Son has been made perfect forever.
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