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Hbr 7:21 — (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:)

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

an oath		or, swearing of an oath.
The Lord		Hbr 7:17; Psa 110:4
sware		Hbr 6:16-18

Correlating Passages

The Lord

	Hbr 7:17	For he testifieth, Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
	Psa 110:4	The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou [art] a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

sware

	Hbr 6:16	For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation [is] to them an end of all strife.
	Hbr 6:17	Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath:
	Hbr 6:18	That by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

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Scott, Thomas. "Hebrews 7:21," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Hbr/7/21.html>.

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