15 And this becomes clearer if another priest like Melchizedek appears, 16 who did not become a priest based on a legal regulation about physical[a] descent but based on the power of an indestructible life. 17 For it has been testified:

You are a priest forever
according to the order of Melchizedek.[b](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 7:16 Or fleshly
  2. 7:17 Ps 110:4

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