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

¹⁷ For it is witnessed of him,

⁶ as he says also in another place,

¹⁸ And ^(A)Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was ^(B)priest of ^(C)God Most High.)

²⁸ For the law appoints men ^(A)in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made ^(B)perfect forever.

²⁰ where Jesus has gone ^(A)as a forerunner on our behalf, ^(B)having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

The Priestly Order of Melchizedek

7 For this ^(C)Melchizedek, king of ^(D)Salem, priest of ^(E)the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, ² and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace. ³ He is without father or mother ^(F)or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever.

^13 (A)It is he who shall build the temple of the Lord ^(B)and shall bear royal honor, and shall sit and rule on his throne. And there^[a] shall be a ^(C)priest on his throne, ^(D)and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.”’