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Hebrews 6
¹⁴ “I will certainly bless you, and I will multiply your descendants beyond number.”
¹⁵ Then Abraham waited patiently, and he received what God had promised.
¹⁶ Now when people take an oath, they call on someone greater than themselves to hold them to it. And without any question that oath is binding.
¹⁷ God also bound himself with an oath, so that those who received the promise could be perfectly sure that he would never change his mind.
¹⁸ So God has given both his promise and his oath. These two things are unchangeable because it is impossible for God to lie. Therefore, we who have fled to him for refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us.
¹⁹ This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. It leads us through the curtain into God’s inner sanctuary.
²⁰ Jesus has already gone in there for us. He has become our eternal High Priest in the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 7
¹ This Melchizedek was king of the city of Salem and also a priest of God Most High. When Abraham was returning home after winning a great battle against the kings, Melchizedek met him and blessed him.
² Then Abraham took a tenth of all he had captured in battle and gave it to Melchizedek. The name Melchizedek means “king of justice,” and king of Salem means “king of peace.”
³ There is no record of his father or mother or any of his ancestors—no beginning or end to his life. He remains a priest forever, resembling the Son of God.
⁴ Consider then how great this Melchizedek was. Even Abraham, the great patriarch of Israel, recognized this by giving him a tenth of what he had taken in battle.