Who, can Not Sin and Why?

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Disagree.
Okay. <smile>

Holy hate? Strange term.
Well, I can’t say I’m surprised you would say that. <smile> But everything God does is perfectly holy.

Disagree.
Yeah, again, okay. <smile>

According to WHAT exactly? Mosaic Law…?
Well, I already pointed out that ~ according to Jesus ~ the two great commandments… you remember, I’m sure. On them depend all the Law and the Prophets. I mean that’s what He said. So… do you think they… don’t apply, or no longer have any relevance? Surely not. granted, the ceremonial and civil parts of the Law are no longer in effect. But the moral most certainly is. We aren’t bound to it to merit or earn or maintain our salvation, but it is most certainly in effect. And I could very easily make the case that… well, you and I both break every single one of the Ten Commandments very, very often… Again, Jesus’s “but I tell you” statements concerning the Law are very revealing… should be, anyway, for all of us.

What reveals the “sinful” things you speak of?
<chuckles> In this very thread, Taken, you’re at least to some extent exposing yourself… your sinful heart. I probably am, too. We can’t hide it.

Yet… according to God …He forgives Sin,
Yes He does, When we ask, He is faithful and just to do so. Thanks be to God. Great is His faithfulness.

Once done, and dwells in a man… who…. By what you say… such man continues to commit sin.
Well not willingly. We don’t want to continue sinning, of course. We are no longer dead in our sin… we don’t dwell in it. We still do it, though, as Paul says of himself, and thus of all of us, in Romans 7. But we are repentant; we want to no longer sin… turn fully from our sin, die to sin and live to God. This is repentance. But in our current state, we cannot fully and perfectly repent. So we pray continually… again, should, anyway… that the Spirit would lead us to a deep and lasting repentance.

Disagree.
Yeah, again, okay. <shrug> If you say you have no sin, you lie, even to yourself, and the truth is not in you. And again, that’s John, the disciple whom Jesus loved, and he’s fully including himself in that, thus the ‘we’ and ‘us.’

Seems like Paul struggled, maybe felt guilty as (you mentioned guilt), for still having his flesh body. I don’t. And I don’t begrudge Paul’s feelings about his flesh, or anyone else.
<chuckles>

I Rather, believe, my accounted Dead body, (Crucified with Jesus) has already been Sanctified…ie. prepared… forgiven, washed, justified, sealed, overcome with light, that God Himself can no longer See, my forgiven Sin….and neither do I.
Hm. Well, this is not… all… bad… <smile> There is some now, and some not yet, and some now AND not yet in what you say here. <smile>

I don’t experience Weakness in Christ.
That’s… so not what I said. <chuckles>

I do, accept His Power as absolute, and Trust His Comfort, when men of this world stir the pot.
Hm well it seems to me that you at least somewhat trust in your own power as absolute.

I do not know what “weakness” plagues you.
You have the same weakness, Taken. We all do. It’s the human condition. For us who have been born again, though, we know it about ourselves, and we are… well we both have been and are being saved, and Jesus will raise us on the last day.

No I do not live my life in a constant confession and repentance.
That’s… troubling. All these things you have kept from your youth, yeah? <smile>

Okay, well again, grace and peace to you.
 

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Matt 5:
[17] Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
It's quite simple really.
Jesus loved the Father with all his heart, mind and soul, and taught us through his words and actions which gave us proof.
Jesus loved his neigbors even until the end when he asked for those who killed him to be forgiven.
Jhn 15:13
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

And that is why he came into the world.
To fulfill the law.
Jhn 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
He also fulfilled the prophecies concerning him and through Him God kept his promise of reconciliation to mankind.

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John is delivering a message to those who have not heard.
He is saying to the unconverted, unsaved, unreconciled...
If you say you have no sin...
If you say you don't need Jesus.
If you say you have Abraham to your Father...
Mat 3:9
And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

These are those that John is speaking to in 1 John.

He is preaching the Gospel to those who have not heard the good news.

1Jo 4:8
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
1Jo 4:6
We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

1Jo 1:5
This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
1Jo 1:6
If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
1Jo 1:7
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

All Sin.

1Jo 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1Jo 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

John is preaching the Gospel to those who are walking in darkness, not those who are walking in the light.
Because those who walk in the light are already cleansed from all sin.
And what is that sin?
Unbelief.

This is exactly what Jesus was saying to the Jews who believed they had no sin. It is the same message to the same people.

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2Co 5:21
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Knew no sin.

Isa 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Isa 53:10
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

He hath put him to grief.

Gen 3:15
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

It shall bruise thy head.
Thou shalt bruise his heel.

Eph 2:16
And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

Slain the enmity.
hostility; by implication, a reason for opposition:—enmity, hatred.

There is that Hate again.

reconcile both, both what?
Her seed and his seed.

Her seed are those that believe, and his seed are those in unbelief.

Rom 5:10
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

Heb 2:17
Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

Made like unto his brethren.

Hath made him to be sin.

Sin is unbelief.

Jesus was Sinless because he could not deny his own existence.
But he was made to be sin for us.

2Ti 2:13
If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
Mat 16:24
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Rom 6:2
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Rom 6:7
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
Rom 6:11
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Mat 10:38
And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.

Luk 9:27
But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.

Is Jesus speaking of Thomas?

Jhn 20:29
Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

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Luk 9:27
But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.

Heb 2:9
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

Jhn 8:52
Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.

Jhn 8:54
Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:
Jhn 8:55
Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.

Rev 3:9
Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

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John was an appointed teacher to Jews.
Many Jews were still following Mosaic Law.
According to mosaic Law… Commission of Sin… was Unbelief, AND violation of Mosaic Law.

I think it would be more in line with Jewish thought to say that "Sin" is a violation of their covenant relationship with God. "Unfaithfulness" would be a better word than "unbelief" because it carries the same sense of covenant violation.

With the 1 John 3 passage under consideration, I would say that John views "Sin" more as a violation of our identity as Children of God.

I can see some overlap in those two worldviews, covenant relationship versus identity, but they're not quite the same.
 
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A sin offering, the Lamb of God.

2 Corinthians 5:21 (CJB)
21 God made this sinless man be a sin offering on our behalf, s
yes

An offering for sin.

Lev 6:25
Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it is most holy.

What is the burnt offering?

Jesus is the sin offering, killed in the place where the burnt offering is killed.

Gen 22:2
And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

Jer 20:9
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

Jhn 5:33
Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.
Jhn 5:34
But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.
Jhn 5:35
He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.

Was John the burnt offering.

The similarities between Isaac and John, both by promise. Both mothers beyond bearing age.
Sarah and Elizabeth.

Isaac was to be offered as a burnt offering and John was beheaded for the word of God.

Rev 20:4
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
 

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<chuckles> In this very thread, Taken, you’re at least to some extent exposing yourself… your sinful heart.

Quite a speech performance.

Perhaps you could use your detective skills and “quote me”, saying “anything” Against the Lord God.
 

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I never get embarrassed defending the Bible and pulling 'CANNOT sinners' out of the fire!

That is bold Jack! Very alarming.

You are in grave error, ignoring the Lords accomplished works, and appointing yourself savior.

1 John 3:
[9] Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
 

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Well, I already pointed out that ~ according to Jesus ~ the two great commandments… So… do you think they… don’t apply, or no longer have any relevance?

Did I say “Anything” to make “you wonder”, if “ I think” God has Changed?



Surely not. granted, the ceremonial and civil parts of the Law are no longer in effect. But the moral most certainly is. We aren’t bound to it to merit or earn or maintain our salvation, but it is most certainly in effect. And I could very easily make the case that… well, you and I both break every single one of the Ten Commandments very, very often… Again, Jesus’s “but I tell you” statements concerning the Law are very revealing… should be, anyway, for all of us.


<chuckles> In this very thread, Taken, you’re at least to some extent exposing yourself… your sinful heart. I probably am, too. We can’t hide it.


Yes He does, When we ask, He is faithful and just to do so. Thanks be to God. Great is His faithfulness.


Well not willingly. We don’t want to continue sinning, of course. We are no longer dead in our sin… we don’t dwell in it. We still do it, though, as Paul says of himself, and thus of all of us, in Romans 7. But we are repentant; we want to no longer sin… turn fully from our sin, die to sin and live to God. This is repentance. But in our current state, we cannot fully and perfectly repent. So we pray continually… again, should, anyway… that the Spirit would lead us to a deep and lasting repentance.


Yeah, again, okay. <shrug> If you say you have no sin, you lie, even to yourself, and the truth is not in you. And again, that’s John, the disciple whom Jesus loved, and he’s fully including himself in that, thus the ‘we’ and ‘us.’


<chuckles>


Hm. Well, this is not… all… bad… <smile> There is some now, and some not yet, and some now AND not yet in what you say here. <smile>


That’s… so not what I said. <chuckles>


Hm well it seems to me that you at least somewhat trust in your own power as absolute.


You have the same weakness, Taken. We all do. It’s the human condition. For us who have been born again, though, we know it about ourselves, and we are… well we both have been and are being saved, and Jesus will raise us on the last day.


That’s… troubling. All these things you have kept from your youth, yeah? <smile>

Okay, well again, grace and peace to you.
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And I could very easily make the case that… well, you and I both break every single one of the Ten Commandments very, very often…

Since “YOU”, have appointed “yourself qualified” to speak “for me”…

Please produce your “Evidence”…
Of “me”… breaking this Commandment…
* Thou shall Love the Lord thy God…







<chuckles> In this very thread, Taken, you’re at least to some extent exposing yourself… your sinful heart. I probably am, too. We can’t hide it.


Yes He does, When we ask, He is faithful and just to do so. Thanks be to God. Great is His faithfulness.


Well not willingly. We don’t want to continue sinning, of course. We are no longer dead in our sin… we don’t dwell in it. We still do it, though, as Paul says of himself, and thus of all of us, in Romans 7. But we are repentant; we want to no longer sin… turn fully from our sin, die to sin and live to God. This is repentance. But in our current state, we cannot fully and perfectly repent. So we pray continually… again, should, anyway… that the Spirit would lead us to a deep and lasting repentance.


Yeah, again, okay. <shrug> If you say you have no sin, you lie, even to yourself, and the truth is not in you. And again, that’s John, the disciple whom Jesus loved, and he’s fully including himself in that, thus the ‘we’ and ‘us.’


<chuckles>


Hm. Well, this is not… all… bad… <smile> There is some now, and some not yet, and some now AND not yet in what you say here. <smile>


That’s… so not what I said. <chuckles>


Hm well it seems to me that you at least somewhat trust in your own power as absolute.


You have the same weakness, Taken. We all do. It’s the human condition. For us who have been born again, though, we know it about ourselves, and we are… well we both have been and are being saved, and Jesus will raise us on the last day.


That’s… troubling. All these things you have kept from your youth, yeah? <smile>

Okay, well again, grace and peace to you.
 

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We don’t want to continue sinning, of course. We are no longer dead in our sin… we don’t dwell in it. We still do it, though,

Oxymoron.

as Paul says of himself, and thus of all of us, in Romans 7. [/B]

Seems you missed … Paul’s “appointment”.
Paul was “appointed” to teach …
jews, gentiles, kings

Teaching, implies revealing, new information.
Do “you” think Paul, ( a Jew and Gentile) was “teaching” each..
jews, gentiles, kings…
All in the Same manner?
I don’t.

* Jews had 4 thousand years of familiar Knowledge of God and their Messiah…
* Gentiles had 4 thousand years of establishing their own gods.
* kings had 4 thousand years of establishing themselves as gods.

But we are repentant; we want to no longer sin… turn fully from our sin, die to sin and live to God. This is repentance.
But
…in our current state, we cannot fully and perfectly repent.
So
we pray continually… again, should, anyway… that
the Spirit would
lead us
to a deep and lasting repentance.


Seems you PRAY (ASK) continually…HOPING
God Will … hear you, perfect you, to your satisfaction.


Sounds like, you are following the Same protocol, Jews followed for 4 thousand years…Praying (asking) God… over and over and over to lead you, perfect you, to your satisfaction.

You missed the WHOLE purpose of Christ Jesus, and Instead continue PRAYING (Asking) over and over and over…. What was already Offered you…
For your Offering … TO TAKE, HAVE, POSSESS.

I chose: of my own willing: FREEWILL…
to TAKE Gods Offering;
By, Through, Of the Lord Jesus…
to willingly Confess my Sin Against God…
to willingly Confess my Regret…
to willingly Confess my Heartful Belief in Him.
to willingly surrender my body unto death,
…verifying my Confessed Testimony.

And “Unlike you”…
I TRUST the Lord Gods Forgiveness, unto me, was Once and Done, Satisfactorily Accomplished, as HE Taught.

And… according to Gods Order, Way, Offering, Satisfaction…
“My dead body”, crucified with Jesus…
Has been, fully PREPARED…
* Sanctified; * Forgiven, Washed, Cleansed, Sealed, Justified, * Set aside With all others
For Resurrection unto the Hand of the Lord God Almighty.

While “presently” other living men can See my body with their limited Human eyesight…

It IS “IN” Christ Jesus’ Raised Perfect Body, that I reside.

So no…( unlike you)
I do not Repeatedly PRAY to God, ASKING, for that which He has already Given me.

I PRAY continually to God…
To Praise Him, Worship Him, Thank Him, Bless Him…. And ASK for His Understanding, of His Word that I am presently reading and studying.
 

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If you say you have no sin, you lie, even to yourself, and the truth is not in you.

And?

Why do you find that to have ANY relevance to say that to me?

There is the CAVEAT….. IF

So… why did you NOT quote me SAYING THAT…. Before implying “The Consequence” applies to me?

You are making yourself out to be the one lying.
 

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Verse 23, And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment.

God's command to us is we believe in His Son and love one another, then we are His disciples, to disobey God is transgression of His command, His law.
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Acts 17
30 The times of this ignorance God overlooked, but now He commandeth all men everywhere to repent,

31 because He hath appointed a Day in which He will judge the world in righteousness by that Man whom He hath ordained. Of this He hath given assurance unto all men, in that He hath raised Him from the dead.”
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God's command is eternal life for all who believe.

John 12
47 And if anyone hears My words and does not [g]believe, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. 48 He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him—the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day. 49 For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak. 50 And I know that His command is everlasting life. Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told Me, so I speak.”


How do you feel about sin when you read this entire chapter in regard to all of the above verses...
The devil and those who are of the devil sin, they refuse God, refuse His command to repent and believe in His Son.
They transgress His law and rule in their life, they will not have this man Christ to rule over them. They rebel.

The Parable of the Minas and the result is death
Luke 19:14
But his citizens hated him, and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We will not have this man to reign over us.’
Luke 19:27
But bring here those enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, and slay them before me.’ ”

Such sinners shall never be forgiven, but those who are of God, believe unto the saving of the soul. They do what God commands, and are not disobedient to the message of the gospel to believe in His Son.

12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; 13 but [b]exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, 15 while it is said:

“Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

Failure of the Wilderness Wanderers​

16 For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? 17 Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.


1 Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God! Therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not.

2 Beloved, now we are the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is.

3 And every man that hath this hope in Him purifieth himself, even as He is pure.

4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law, for sin is the transgression of the law.

5 And ye know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him is no sin.

6 Whosoever abideth in Him sinneth not; whosoever sinneth hath not seen Him, neither known Him.

7 Little children, let no man deceive you. He that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous.

8 He that committeth sin is of the devil, for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.

9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for His seed remaineth in him, and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

10 By this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither is he that loveth not his brother.

11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning: that we should love one another.

12 Be not as Cain, who was of that wicked one and slew his brother. And why did he slay him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.

14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer, and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

16 Hereby we perceive the love of God: because He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

17 But whoso hath this world’s goods and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up the compassion of his heart from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

19 And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him.

20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart and knoweth all things.

21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then we have confidence toward God.

22 And whatsoever we ask we receive of Him, because we keep His commandment and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.

23 And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment.

24 And he that keepeth His commandments dwelleth in Him, and He in him. And hereby we know that He abideth in us: by the Spirit which He hath given us.
 
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What is the sin that causes eternal death?
The sin of unbelief.
Believers do not commit that sin, they sin not unto death.
In God's new covenant, the commandments which caused transgression of the law, are no longer in effect, that covenant has passed away, our transgressions in violation of that first covenant law were paid for by the blood of Christ shed for us who believe in Him.

We have a new covenant, a new high priest, a new law and a much better covenant and an eternal salvation for believers in Christ.

Hebrews 10:39
But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.

Hebrews 9:15
And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

Need for a New Priesthood​

11 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? 12 For the priesthood being changed, of necessity there is also a change of the law. 13 For He of whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no man has [b]officiated at the altar.

14 For it is evident that our Lord arose from Judah, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning [c]priesthood. 15 And it is yet far more evident if, in the likeness of Melchizedek, there arises another priest 16 who has come, not according to the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an endless life. 17 For [d]He testifies:

“You are a priest forever
According to the order of Melchizedek.”
18 For on the one hand there is an annulling of the former commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness, 19 for the law made nothing [e]perfect; on the other hand, there is the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

Greatness of the New Priest​

20 And inasmuch as He was not made priest without an oath 21 (for they have become priests without an oath, but He with an oath by Him who said to Him:

“The Lord has sworn
And will not relent,
‘You are a priest [f]forever
According to the order of Melchizedek’ ”),
22 by so much more Jesus has become a [g]surety of a better covenant.

23 Also there were many priests, because they were prevented by death from continuing. 24 But He, because He continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood. 25 Therefore He is also able to save [h]to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

26 For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, [i]harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens; 27 who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people’s, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself. 28 For the law appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son who has been perfected forever.
 
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