From: ngninja@baptist.email   
      
   Bible Reading for December 19   
      
   Hebrews Chapter 7   
      
   1 For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who   
   met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;   
      
   2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by   
   interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem,   
   which is, King of peace;   
      
   3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither   
   beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God;   
   abideth a priest continually.   
      
   4 Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch   
   Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.   
      
   5 And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office   
   of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people   
   according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out   
   of the loins of Abraham:   
      
   6 But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of   
   Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.   
      
   7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.   
      
   8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of   
   whom it is witnessed that he liveth.   
      
   9 And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in   
   Abraham.   
      
   10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.   
      
   11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under   
   it the people received the law,) what further need was there that   
   another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be   
   called after the order of Aaron?   
      
   12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change   
   also of the law.   
      
   13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe,   
   of which no man gave attendance at the altar.   
      
   14 For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe   
   Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.   
      
   15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of   
   Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,   
      
   16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the   
   power of an endless life.   
      
   17 For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of   
   Melchisedec.   
      
   18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before   
   for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.   
      
   19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better   
   hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.   
      
   20 And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:   
      
   21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath   
   by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art   
   a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)   
      
   22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.   
      
   23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to   
   continue by reason of death:   
      
   24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable   
   priesthood.   
      
   25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come   
   unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.   
      
   26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled,   
   separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;   
      
   27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice,   
   first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once,   
   when he offered up himself.   
      
   28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the   
   word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is   
   consecrated for evermore.   
      
   Hebrews Chapter 8   
      
   1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such   
   an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the   
   Majesty in the heavens;   
      
   2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the   
   Lord pitched, and not man.   
      
   3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices:   
   wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.   
      
   4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there   
   are priests that offer gifts according to the law:   
      
   5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was   
   admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See,   
   saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to   
   thee in the mount.   
      
   6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also   
   he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon   
   better promises.   
      
   7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place   
   have been sought for the second.   
      
   8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith   
   the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and   
   with the house of Judah:   
      
   9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the   
   day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt;   
   because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not,   
   saith the Lord.   
      
   10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel   
   after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind,   
   and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they   
   shall be to me a people:   
      
   11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his   
   brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to   
   the greatest.   
      
   12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and   
   their iniquities will I remember no more.   
      
   13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now   
   that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.   
      
   Hebrews Chapter 9   
      
   1 Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service,   
   and a worldly sanctuary.   
      
   2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the   
   candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the   
   sanctuary.   
      
   3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest   
   of all;   
      
   4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid   
   round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and   
   Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;   
      
   5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which   
   we cannot now speak particularly.   
      
   6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into   
   the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.   
      
   7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not   
   without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the   
   people:   
      
   8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all   
   was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:   
      
   9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered   
   both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service   
   perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;   
      
      
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