For if that first {covenant} had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness {come} by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? {turn ye again: or, turn ye back} {elements: or, rudiments}

For he testifieth, Thou {art} a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou {art} a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:) {without...: or, without swearing of an oath}

And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,

For this {is} the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: {put: Gr. give} {in: or, upon}

As he saith also in another {place}, Thou {art} a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: {elements: or, rudiments}

Whither the forerunner is for us entered, {even} Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.

And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

For the law having a shadow of good things to come, {and} not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou {art} a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness {come} by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

For if that first {covenant} had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

In that he saith, A new {covenant}, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old {is} ready to vanish away.

Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, {principles...: or, word of the beginning of}

For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.

For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: {there...: or, they are priests}

For such an high priest became us, {who is} holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.

For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us. {customs: or, rites}

These {were} the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the LORD, according to their manner, under Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.

But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of the burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, {and were appointed} for all the work of the {place} most holy, and to make an atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered {unto his people}, and shall die there.

And he shall have it, and his seed after him, {even} the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.

And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,

And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons. {put: Heb. bind} {consecrate: Heb. fill the hand of}

Which {was} a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;

For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope {did}; by the which we draw nigh unto God. {the bringing...: or, it was the bringing in}