12. For a change in the priesthood necessitates a change in the law.
13. For the One concerning whom these things are spoken pertains to another tribe, from which no man served at the altar.
14. For it is evident that our Lord descended from Judah, a tribe concerning which Moses said nothing about priests.
15. This is far more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,
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.
23. And the former priests were numerous because they were hindered from serving because of death.
24. But He, because He lives forever, has an everlasting priesthood.
25. Therefore He is able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, because He at all times lives to make intercession for them.