Heb 7:16-17 | ESV | STEP | who has become a priest, not on the basis of a legal requirement concerning bodily descent , but by the power of an indestructible life .

a ver. 21; ch. 5:6; 6:20; Cited from Ps. 110:4

Hebrews 7:16-17

16 who has become a priest, not on the basis of a legal requirement concerning bodily descent, but by the power of an indestructible life. 17 For it is witnessed of him,

^a“You are a priest forever,
after the order of Melchizedek.”