15. It is even more obvious if another priest is raised up after the likeness of Melchizedek,
16. who has become so, not by a law expressed in a commandment concerning physical descent but by the power of a life that cannot be destroyed.
17. For it is testified:“You are a priest foreveraccording to the order of Melchizedek.”
18. On the one hand, a former commandment is annulled because of its weakness and uselessness,
19. for the law brought nothing to perfection; on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.