Hebrews 6:13-7:3

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Inheriting the Promise

¹³For when God made a promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself:

¹⁴I will indeed bless you,
and I will greatly multiply you.^(A)^[a]

¹⁵And so, after waiting patiently, Abraham^[b] obtained the promise. ¹⁶For men swear by something greater than themselves, and for them a confirming oath ends every dispute. ¹⁷Because God wanted to show His unchangeable purpose even more clearly to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath,^(B) ¹⁸so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us.^(C) ¹⁹We have this hope as an anchor for our lives, safe and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain.^(D) ²⁰Jesus has entered there on our behalf as a forerunner,^(E) because He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.^(F)

The Greatness of Melchizedek

7 For this Melchizedek—

King of Salem, priest of the Most High God,
who met Abraham and blessed him
as he returned from defeating the kings,
²and Abraham gave him a tenth of everything;
first, his name means king of righteousness,
then also, king of Salem,
meaning king of peace;
³without father, mother, or genealogy,
having neither beginning of days nor end of life,
but resembling the Son of God^(G)—