7:3 Without father, without mother, without genealogy, he has neither beginning of days nor end of life but is like the son of God, and he remains a priest for all time.
Hebrews 7:16-17
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
Hebrews 7:28
7:28 For the law appoints as high priests men subject to weakness, 4 but the word of solemn affirmation that came after the law appoints a son made perfect forever.
1 tnGrk “a law of a fleshly command.”
1 tnGrk “for he/it is witnessed that.”
2 sn A quotation from Ps 110:4 (see Heb 5:6 and 6:20).
1 sn See Heb 5:2 where this concept was introduced.