7:15 And this is even clearer if another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,
7:16 who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent 1 but by the power of an indestructible life.
7:17 For here is the testimony about him: 2 “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.” 3
1 tnGrk “a law of a fleshly command.”
2 tnGrk “for he/it is witnessed that.”
3 sn A quotation from Ps 110:4 (see Heb 5:6 and 6:20).