17. for He doth testify--`Thou [art] a priest--to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;'
18. for a disannulling indeed doth come of the command going before because of its weakness, and unprofitableness,
19. (for nothing did the law perfect) and the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw nigh to God.
20. And inasmuch as [it is] not apart from oath, (for those indeed apart from oath are become priests,
21. and he with an oath through Him who is saying unto him, `The Lord sware, and will not repent, Thou [art] a priest--to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;')
22. by so much of a better covenant hath Jesus become surety,
23. and those indeed are many who have become priests, because by death they are hindered from remaining;
24. and he, because of his remaining--to the age, hath the priesthood not transient,
25. whence also he is able to save to the very end, those coming through him unto God- -ever living to make intercession for them.
26. For such a chief priest did become us--kind, harmless, undefiled, separate from the sinners, and become higher than the heavens,