The Lord has sworn an oath and will not take it back:
“You are a priest forever
according to the pattern of Melchizedek.”(A)

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also says in another place,

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

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Footnotes

  1. 5:6 Gn 14:18–20; Ps 110:4

20 Jesus has entered there on our behalf as a forerunner,(A) because he has become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.(B)

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21 but he became a priest with an oath made by the one who said to him:

The Lord has sworn
and will not change his mind,
“You are a priest forever.”[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 7:21 Ps 110:4

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