15. It is even more obvious if another priest is raised up after the likeness of Melchizedek,
16. who has become so, not by a law expressed in a commandment concerning physical descent but by the power of a life that cannot be destroyed.
17. For it is testified:“You are a priest foreveraccording to the order of Melchizedek.”
18. On the one hand, a former commandment is annulled because of its weakness and uselessness,
19. for the law brought nothing to perfection; on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.
20. And to the degree that this happened not without the taking of an oath—for others became priests without an oath,
21. but he with an oath, through the one who said to him:“The Lord has sworn, and he will not repent:‘You are a priest forever’”—
22. to that same degree has Jesus [also] become the guarantee of an [even] better covenant.