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And inasmuch as not without an oath [he was made priest]: (7:20) (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:) (7:21) By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament (7:22) And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: (7:23) But this [man], because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood (7:24) Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them (7:25) For such an high priest became us, [who is] holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; (7:26) 20 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself (7:27) For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, [maketh] the Son, who is consecrated for evermore
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