16 who becomes a priest not by a law pertaining to ancestry, but by the power of an endless life.
17 For He testifies: “You are a priest forever,in the order of Melchizedek.”
18 For there is then an annulling of the previous commandment due to its weakness and uselessness.
19 For the law made nothing perfect, but now a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.
20 And He was not made a priest without an oath.
21 (Other priests were made without an oath, but this One with an oath by the One who said to Him: “The Lord has swornand will not relent,‘You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.’ ”)
22 Through this oath Jesus became the guarantor of a better covenant.