At God's right hand: king and priest

¹ Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

² Yahweh will send out the rod of your strength out of Zion. Rule among your enemies.

³ Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

⁴ Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

⁵ The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.

⁶ He will judge among the nations. He will heap up dead bodies. He will crush the ruler of the whole earth.

⁷ He will drink of the brook on the way; therefore he will lift up his head.

¹¹ Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

¹² For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a change made also in the law.

¹³ For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar.

¹⁴ For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

¹⁵ This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest,

¹⁶ who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life;

¹⁷ for it is testified, “You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.”

¹⁸ For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

¹⁹ (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

²⁰ Inasmuch as he was not made priest without the taking of an oath

²¹ (for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him, “The Lord swore and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.’ ”

²² By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant.

²³ Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered from continuing by death.

²⁴ But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable.

²⁵ Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

²⁶ For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

²⁷ who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.

²⁸ For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.