“For the Lord disciplines the one he loves and chastises every son he accepts.”

For it is clear that our Lord is descended from Judah, yet Moses said nothing about priests in connection with that tribe.

a minister in the sanctuary and the true tabernacle that the Lord, not man, set up.

So we can say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper, and I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”

but Jesus did so with a sworn affirmation by the one who said to him, “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever’” –

For we know the one who said, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.”

But showing its fault, God says to them, “Look, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will complete a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

“This is the covenant that I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws on their hearts and I will inscribe them on their minds,”

“It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord.

“For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people.