Hebrews 7: 1 - 3, 15 - 17
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For this Melchiz'edek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him;
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and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace.
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He is without father or mother or genealogy, and has neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest for ever.
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This becomes even more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of Melchiz'edek,
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who has become a priest, not according to a legal requirement concerning bodily descent but by the power of an indestructible life.
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For it is witnessed of him, "Thou art a priest for ever, after the order of Melchiz'edek."
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